June 6, 2003

Oh please oh please oh please
The Bushies and Britain are experiencing a political crisis over intelligence reports that stated Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

'The inability to discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has created a political crisis in the United States and Britain. Within the two governments, there are recriminations and brutal political infighting over responsibility. Stratfor warned in February that the unwillingness of the U.S. government to articulate its real, strategic reasons for the war - choosing instead to lean on WMD as the justification - would lead to a deep crisis at some point. That moment seems to be here.

'"Weapons of mass destruction" is promising to live up to its name: The issue may well result in the mass destruction of senior British and American officials who used concerns about WMD in Iraq as the primary, public justification for going to war. The simple fact is that no one has found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and - except for some vans which may have been used for biological weapons - no evidence that Iraq was working to develop such weapons.

'Since finding WMD is a priority for U.S. military forces, which have occupied Iraq for more than a month, the failure to find weapons of mass destruction not only has become an embarrassment, it also has the potential to mushroom into a major political crisis in the United States and Britain. Not only is the political opposition exploiting the paucity of Iraqi WMD, but the various bureaucracies are using the issue to try to discredit each other. It's a mess.' - Read more here.



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