WTF Is It Now?!?

U.S. faces repercussions if weapons are not found
'The dilemma for Washington, according to foreign policy analysts, is that with each passing day, the failure to produce evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons undercuts the success of the military campaign, as well as U.S. credibility overseas.

"This was the core reason for going to war with Iraq and the reason we had to go now," said Joseph Cirincione, author of "Deadly Arsenals," a study of unconventional weapons programs worldwide.

"If we don't find fairly large stockpiles of these weapons, in quantities large enough to pose a strategic threat to the United States, then the president's credibility will be seriously undermined, and the legitimacy of the war repudiated," Cirincione said.

'The consequences would be especially troubling in the Middle East, where the Bush White House hopes to implement an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and to receive fresh cooperation from Arab states in combating terrorism.

"If these weapons are not found in Iraq, then the Arab world could come to the conclusion that the country was invaded under false pretenses and that it was not legal," said S. Azmat Hassan, a former Pakistani ambassador to Syria and Morocco.'

"We'll find 'em," Gen. Hugh Jasskisser said yesterday. "Once the Pentagon tells us where they've planted 'em." - link.