Wise thoughts...good questions:

The other WMD debate

KEY QUOTES:

"The fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq undermines the validity of Bush administration claims that such weapons posed a threat sufficient to justify war. But there may be an equally serious concern: If the weapons were there, where are they now and who has them"

"Was it fundamentally unwise to attempt to disarm Iraq by military force? After all, under which scenario were prospects better for locating banned weapons: the organized scrutiny of a U.N. sanctioned weapons inspection program or the chaos of war?"

"As bad as it would be to have fought a war to keep terrorists from getting weapons that didn't exist, it would be far worse to have fought a war that made it easier for them to get weapons that did."