WMD Reporting

Outside the Beltway and PoliBlog got a couple of thoughts about the Weapons of Mass Destrution reporting.

While pro-war types shouldn't gee all excited about old shells with deteriorating chemical weapons in them, neither should war skeptics act as if this is a non-story. It is not accurate for WaPo to state that no weapons were found, rather it should report that old ones were found. The presence of stored WMDs, even if old and depleted ones, is still significant. (Steven Taylor, PoliBlog)

It is significant. But nobody has doubted that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction at some time. There´s lots of proof of this. But what's interesting is wheather Iraq had WMD at the start of the war. Because this was the argument used for justifying the war - both at home and in the UN.