WMD MIA - III

WMD MIA - III

New York Post Online Edition: postopinion

So what might have happened to the WMD that U.S. and British intelligence believed was in Iraq before the war? It could be pretty simple.

Hussein's henchmen may have believed that if they destroyed or buried the weapons deep underground just before inspectors arrived and kept the means of production (e.g., mobile bioweapons labs) out of sight, they could convince the international community that Saddam was a changed man.

Once the inspectors left, Hussein would simply have had to buy some of the readily available civilian materials used in the production of chemical and biological weapons, and he'd be back in the WMD business.

This scenario is certainly plausible. Here's why:

You'll have to read the column to find out why . . . . . .