The Pentagon is sure trying to put a new spin on the question of weapons of mass destruction in Irag. Here is part of the news story reported today.
A senior Bush administration official said Friday that a Defense Intelligence Agency report from September 2002, which stated "there is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons," did not conflict with the U.S. case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
DIA Director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby said that the report showed that his agency "could not specifically pin down individual facilities operating as part of the weapons of mass destruction programs."
Well, no, of course not! Since this government had given Saddam several months advance notice that he would suffer the consequences if he did not step aside, he had plenty of opportunity to move whatever could have been there, if anything, to another country. Hussein may have been evil but he wasn't that stupid. Faced with an overwhelming military force, he was left with few choices. If he actually had WMDs, why didn't he use them? He could have fought to the bitter end but as it was, the war sputtered out almost before it began.
There is something mighty peculiar going on here. Where is Saddam anyway, alive or dead? The questions could go on and on about who did what to whom and why. There are never any easy answers.
Oh well, the weekend is almost upon us so I will enjoy what I can of it even though I must go into the office for a few hours on Saturday morning. In the evening I will be at the opera where I will see Rossini's "La Cenerentola". The tenor in this cast is Juan Diego Florez who has been getting rave reviews most everywhere these days. It is too bad that this is a relatively small role. They will be performing "Barber of Seville" next season I believe but he is not scheduled for that cast. That is most unfortunate.
Well, on to other matters for awhile.
Cheers.
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