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Based on The Federalist's assessment of open-source information combined with excellent leads from high-level military and intelligence analysts, we have vigorously defended our nation's military assault on Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. It can no longer be credibly argued but that these are major fronts in the conduct of our war against Jihadistan (that borderless nation of Islamic extremists with global reach, inhabited by al-Qa'ida and other Islamists who are targeting the U.S.). It has also been our considered position that Saddam's WMD programs and his alliance with terrorist organizations was a major threat to U.S. national security --...

One year ago, this column first reported that Allied Forces would be unlikely to discover Saddam's WMD stores in Iraq -- that the UN Security Council's foot-dragging had provided Saddam with plenty of time to export his biological and nuclear WMD. Back then, I wrote, "There is a substantial body of intelligence supporting our position that Iraq shipped some or all of its biological and nuclear WMD stores to Syria and Lebanon's heavily fortified Bekaa Valley." In December, a senior-level intelligence source confirmed again that much of Iraq's WMD had, in fact, been moved to and through Syria. This week,...