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Thanks for this. I noticed in the featured “grilling” of Dick Cheney by Megyn Kelly on Fox News that when she says he “got it wrong about Saddam having WMDs” Cheney doesn’t correct her and say that in fact Saddam did have WMDs. Why not?

Just wanted to let you know I read and enjoyed the article you “pingalinged” to me. Thanks very much. However, I think you must have been misled by the headline. The article itself says that WMDs were once made there. It does not say there are any WMDs there at present, or were there at the start of the Iraq war:

““17.09 Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX.”
The article goes on to say, “17.05 The Chemical Weapons Convention, which Iraq joined in 2009, requires it to dispose of the material at Al Muthanna, even though it was declared unusable and “does not pose a significant security risk”

So the chemical munitions that are there are unusable and are not a security risk. WMDs are usable and do pose a significant security risk. So, no WMDs.

I have enjoyed our discussion of this topic. I hope you will keep me up to date with your findings in the future. I admire the passion you bring to your writing, even when it is misplaced.