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04/27/2004: "Saddam's WMDs"

Evidence of Saddam's WMDs have been found in Iraq. This is too good to excerpt. Items found include biological weapons, nuclear weapon production, unmanned aerial vehicles, and SCUDs. Iraqi scientists were ordered conceal their efforts from UN inspectors. It seems that biological weapons were tested on prisoners.

I do have one semi-paranoid question, along with a possible answer. Suppose Saddam produced all those WMDs and suppose they're still hidden in Iraq in a variety of proverbial spider holes. Suppose further that Saddam's chief lieutenants know where they are and want to keep them hidden. As Coalition troops scour the Iraqi countryside, wouldn't one Saddam's lieutenants blow up some of the WMDs to prevent its retrieval? And wouldn't such an explosion leave some sort of plume detectable by coalition forces?

I don't think so. Chemical weapons resemble fertilizer, so such residues might not show up on tests. And biological weapons do have a shelf life; there wouldn't be huge amounts to destroy.

Still, as we continue to whoop the Saddamist's behinds, why have they not resorted to more desperate measures?

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on Thursday, April 29th, alex said

Is it possible that they don't have any more desperate measures? That they want to give up, but with honor?

on Thursday, April 29th, Alan said

Anything is possible, of course. And I do think it quite possible that they don't have access to the more desperate measures. But to think that they want to give up with honor, I would have to trust their intentions. I do not trust their intentions. Some people are just evil. Imagine high school's biggest bully, the inner cities baddest gang leader, prison's worst sadist. Some people are serious threats to society and cannot be reformed with mere kind words. In Iraq, such people flourished under Saddam; they are trying to kill U.S. soldiers today so that they may once again subject Iraq to a cruel dictatorship. While it would be nice to help these depraved individuals, it is more important that we help Iraqi society.