Looting the Weapons Iraq Never Had

According to the New York Times "looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein's most important weapons installations" in the "weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003."

Let's keep in mind, of course, that to the degree these weapons are dangerous it justifies invasion to the same degree. One cannot claim Saddam as having been harmless, yet also point to the dispersal of these weapons as a setback in the War on Terror, if only because there was nothing to prevent Saddam from dispersing them beforehand; and on an ongoing basis, too.

Christopher Hitchens -- one of the war's more eloquent supporters -- sees this contradiction in complaints, and has some harsh words for postwar planning, as well.

ť March 15th, 2005

posted @ 03:38 PM in Iraq

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