It seems that US claims about Iraqi WMDs and Al Qaeda connections were right after all. See Judith Miller in the New York Times:
WITH THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION, south of Baghdad, Iraq, April 20 — A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq’s chemical weapons program for more than a decade has told an American military team that Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began, members of the team said.
They said the scientist led Americans to a supply of material that proved to be the building blocks of illegal weapons, which he claimed to have buried as evidence of Iraq’s illicit weapons programs.
The scientist also told American weapons experts that Iraq had secretly sent unconventional weapons and technology to Syria, starting in the mid-1990’s, and that more recently Iraq was cooperating with Al Qaeda, the military officials said.
Some anti-war folks had already started gloating about the unfound weapons and impossible Al Qaeda connections a bit prematurely, it now seems. That’s not a good thing to do.
via Kausfiles.
I’ve already heard the change in the chorus – now they are saying that “He’s just saying all the things you want to hear.”
This will no doubt be followed with “Everything that was found was all manufactured by the CIA/FBI/DOE/the Evil One Rumsfeld Himself.”
Because it’s all a conspiracy to get the…
you know.