Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Mostly a Lie?

I've never bought the idea that the chemical weapons charges leveled against Saddam Hussein prior to the Iraq War were baseless.

Via Instapundit, we have this fascinating non-news:

Britain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what's left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons, still stored in two bunkers in north of Baghdad, the British embassy in Baghdad announced Monday. ...

Saddam stored the chemical weapons near population centers so that he could access them quickly, despite the danger to his civilian population.

Most of Iraq's chemical weapons were destroyed by military forces in 1991 during the first Gulf War or by U.N. inspectors after the fighting. The inspections halted just before the invasion.

"Most" of Saddam's chemical weapons were destroyed prior to the Iraq War. Not "all" of Saddam's chemical weapons.

But now all of Saddam's chemical weapons will be gone.

More importantly, of course, Saddam and his regime are gone. Even if he had none in March 2003, he had the means to restart production quickly to mount them on banned missiles that he had built despite his promises (inspectors destroyed those missiles just before the invasion).