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The point to be made is the WMD have been found, but it did not satify the media's requirements.

The various chemical weapons concentrations found in the river on the approach to Baghdad is a good example. It hit the media, flashed, and was gone to long lost archive before the war was over. Test showed Sarin, Mustard and VX gas, if I remember correctly.

Then there is the pesticide issue. Either Iraq has some pretty monstrous roaches, or the pesticides they manufactured that made the troops guarding them show the exact same symptoms as nerve gas exposure were a little overstrength. The troops were not just sitting on top of the drums when they found them, so I would suspect the Iraqi use of dual use technology is at work here.
(Pesticide can be easily converted to a Chemical weapon)

Why hasnt anyone in the media used some imagination and seen the connection between the strength of the pesticides used and the Chem Weapons issue. Pesticides and Chemical weapons sometimes share the same symptoms.It isnt out of the realm of imagination that the Iraqis used pesticide formulas with concentrations enough to kill humans as Chemical weapons.

I suppose the media wants the WMD's found to have big, blaring signs on them with a skull and crossbones that grabs them by the neck and chokes the bejeesus outta them before they declare it.

Most pesticides are nerve agents. They are WMD's for most insects. They are also WMD's for people who use them. There is very little difference between them and VX or Sarin. We have pesticides on the farm that contain small amounts of sarin. As far as the mustard and cyanide they caused toxic levels according to the tests. X-rays contain dangerous levels of radiation but they are not WMD's. What it amounts to is the use that these various substances are used for.

As far as I know, there were no weapons of mass destruction used by the Iraqis in Iraqi Freedom. Therefore there were no WMD's in spite of all the speculation generated before. Bush and his administration made the calculation that WMD's would be used. They weren't and they have been backtracking ever since and diverting to other subjects to spin the reasons we went to war. The lesson to be learned is that war is too important and destructive to be made on speculation.