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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (20938)6/24/2003 10:16:41 AM
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The other WMD debate

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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

The fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq undermines the validity of Bush administration claims that such weapons posed a threat sufficient to justify war. But there may be an equally serious concern: If the weapons were there, where are they now and who has them?

That troubling query arises from an opinion piece in Friday's New York Times written by Kenneth Pollack, author of "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq."

As important as the debate is over whether the White House fudged or fibbed evidence of Iraq and any banned weapons, Pollack writes, "What may ultimately turn out to be the biggest concern over the Iraqi weapons program is the question of whose hands it is now in."

Accepting Pollack's pre-war premise that Iraq had such weapons raises troubling questions: "Where are they?" he asks. "Syria? Iran? Jordan ... or have they found their way into the hands of those most covetous -- Osama bin Laden and his confederates?"

Perhaps unintentionally, Pollack's questions raise others. Was it fundamentally unwise to attempt to disarm Iraq by military force? After all, under which scenario were prospects better for locating banned weapons: the organized scrutiny of a U.N. sanctioned weapons inspection program or the chaos of war?

As bad as it would be to have fought a war to keep terrorists from getting weapons that didn't exist, it would be far worse to have fought a war that made it easier for them to get weapons that did.

seattlepi.nwsource.com
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