Re: Tests Cast Doubt on Chemical Find
Tom,
Privately, administration officials are admitting that their public claims of Iraq's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons were grossly inflated.
The data to date, suggests that Iraq did, indeed, dismantle large quantities of its weapons of mass destruction. What we are likely to find are remnant stocks of deteriorated materials, the presence of precursor chemicals that also have civilian uses, and the existence of legitimate manufacturing facilities that could be converted, but no "smoking gun."
If the purpose of going to war against Iraq was solely to disarm it of its weapons of mass destruction, the war was unnecessary.
Regards,
Donald