Barry at Inn of the Last Home weighs in on the WMD controversy:

Here's a simple question for those of you still concerned the war in Iraq was unjustified because no WMD's have been found yet.

If a hypothetical researcher had been given a research grant to find a treatment for SARS, and in the course of the research instead found the cure for all kinds of cancer...would you be upset that all that money had been wasted on SARS research?

I was for the war in Iraq because I hated Saddam Hussein and his brutal, Stalinist government. Sure, WMD were a concern, but not the only concern. For all of the people whining about Bush and WMD, I'll note that my man Bill Clinton (I voted for him twice) thought Hussein had them, too. And if Hussein didn't have them, why was he so resistant to inspectors for all those years?

One theory is that his subordinates were too afraid of him to tell him that the WMD program had been a failure. Another theory is that Hussein was afraid that weapons inspectors would stumble across his other crimes, such as children's prisons, mass murders of political opponents, or bribery of Middle Eastern journalists and Western officials.

UPDATE: a new theory: Saddam tried to buy a bunch of WMD on the black market, but got ripped off. Found on Steven Den Beste's U.S.S. Clueless, who's blogging on this subject today.

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