Wednesday, March 31, 2004

News Flash: Iraq Arms Inspector Says Search Is a Tangle

The new arms inspector in Iraq, Charles A. Duelfer, says it's much more complicated than I anticipated going in. But we knew Iraq had tons of WMDs; what went wrong? Republicans are "asking for more time before any final judgments are reached." And the Democrats are criticizing the lies:
A top Democratic senator, Carl Levin of Michigan, later complained that the public version of Mr. Duelfer's testimony had omitted information contained in the classified version that would have raised further doubts about whether Iraq possessed illicit weapons at all.
How convenient--the classified version is more skeptical than the public one. Why should we trust these people?