A CONSPIRACY SO VAST

Saddam's Bombs? We'll Find Them: The search for Iraq's nonconventional weapons program has only just begun. (KENNETH M. POLLACK, 6/20/03, NY Times)

The fact that the sites we suspected of containing hidden weapons before the war turned out to have nothing in them is not very significant. American intelligence agencies never claimed to know exactly where or how the Iraqis were hiding what they had ? not in 1995, not in 1999 and not six months ago. It is very possible that the "missing" facilities, weaponized agents, precursor materials and even stored munitions all could still be hidden in places we never would have thought to look. This is exactly why, before the war, so few former weapons inspectors had confidence that a new round of United Nations inspections would find the items they were convinced Iraq was hiding.

The best evidence for the proposition that George W. Bush is an evil genius whose entire presidency is one enormous plot to extract and sell oil to enrich his family and cronies is the insidious seeding of the prior administration with operatives like Mr. Pollack, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George Tenet, Bill Cohen, and others who, as we've only now discovered, lied for eight years about the presence of WMD in Iraq. It's quite diabolical. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 22, 2003 7:35 PM