No WMDs? I Regret Having to Report...

Our idea that there were no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), doesn't match the testimony of soldiers who have recently returned from Iraq.

One friend, a sargeant, in a unit guarding a weapons depot tells of the nerve gas, VX, he was assigned to guard. He was in charge of safeguarding 60 tons of it, which I reckon would be like guarding 120 half-ton pick-up trucks full of the deadly stuff. That helps me visualize what we're talking about here. The stockpile was seized from the Iraquis.

He said that one gallon of VX, were it released into the atmoshere, would kill everyone along the Wasatch Front, from Ogden, Utah down to Provo, Utah.

So, I'm a tad uncomfortable being told there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction.

In a manner of speaking, we've already found three of the weapons - a father and his two sons - and we got rid of them. In addition, we found plenty of evidence of the Mass Destruction they caused in the mass graves we've been unearthing all over Iraq. Estimates range from 750,000 to 2 million Kurds and Shiia were executed and thrown into mass graves, leaving us to wonder: How many more grave sites will we yet find?

These Iraqis were executed with such impunity that their identification cards were left in their pockets, because it was never thought that anyone would discover them. Well, those graves have been revealed! Those responsible are being held accountable. At one point someone has to have said: Enough! No more mass graves!

So, go ahead and stick your heads in the sand about these WMDs. Only, when you pull your heads out of the desert sand, also, pull out the bones of the Iraqi dead you find there.