[kosta50]

No, but they were -- to quote one "shining" example -- something the Beltway boys could bureaucratically agree as the core reason for war.

If politicians are more like an average person, that is either an insult to the people or a scary reminder how rotten people are. I will choose the former.

One does not climb to the top of a pyramid of power by being a "nice guy."

[mark502inf]

Good discussion, although we've been wandering pretty far away from the Balkans topic. On the Iraqi WMD, the choices for where they are:
1. Destroyed by Iraq.
2. Still hidden in Iraq.
3. Hidden in another country (Syria? Libya? ????)
4. In the hands of criminals, terrorists or Hussein regime fugitives.
5. A combination of some or all of 1-4 above.

I tend to go with choice 5. And that is scary--there is no doubt that Al Qaeda will use whatever they can get; having some of that stuff loose means it is just a matter of time before it falls into the hands of people who will use it against us. Which is, BTW, another reason why we should have had more troops on the ground in the invasion of Iraq. We had insufficient ground forces to both defeat the Iraqi military and then occupy the entire country swiftly enough to forestall the WMD growing legs.