You're moving the goalposts

Submitted by David Mikesell (United States), Jun 3, 2003 at 09:04

Look, I voted for Bush and supported the war, but now that WMDs aren't being found I am disturbed by this "moving of the goalposts" by the war's staunchest supporters. You wrote the following last August:

* Dangers. Saddam has unquestionably used the past four years to build WMD. Adnan Saeed al-Haideri, an Iraqi civil engineer and a recent defector, informed the Defense Intelligence Agency that Saddam is building biological and chemical weapons in eight locations throughout Iraq. Khidhir Hamza, former chief nuclear scientist for Saddam's nuclear weapons development program and another Iraqi defector, estimates Iraq now has "12 tons of uranium and 1.3 tons of low-enriched uranium" and asserts that Saddam will have "three to five nuclear weapons by 2005."

Why haven't we found this stuff? Did al-Haideri lie or did he not know the exact locations? Were they destroyed or hidden very well? Somebody needs to start giving straight answers. Right now it looks like the administration and its supporters are backpedaling on the whole WMD issue. Something needs to be found (probably something big) or the admin needs to come clean on what the intelligence was and why it didn't pan out, or it's going to come back to roost next November, I'm afraid.

Respectfully,

David Mikesell

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