From one of my favourite authorities on the Middle East, Juan Cole, we have the following delightful bit of enlightenment:
The United Nations is worried that 90 of the sites in Iraq it had identified as having dangerous weapons have been looted. The inattention of the US Department of Defense to arms depots since the fall of Saddam has been breathtaking, and helps explain the success of the guerrilla war, which is fueled in part by easy access to Baath arms depots. The UN is afraid that the dangerous materials might show up outside Iraq. Given that some of the explosives were high-powered and could bring in a good price from terrorist organizations, this fear is entirely reasonable.
Well, it's a good thing that that whole Iraqi invasion thing had nothing to do with WMDs, and was solely for the purpose of spreading democracy. Cuz' if it was originally justified by the alleged existence of WMDs, that would be kind of embarrassing, wouldn't it?
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