Weapons of Missing Destruction

So it looks like someone finally managed to find the invisible WMD. Well, allegedly, anyway.

Despite the frantic desperation with which neo-conservative ideologues are rushing to proclaim their vindication, I don't think they have even the pyrrhic victory they are desperately seeking to clutch.

How can this be proof Saddam had (and knew he had) WMD? You don't improvise an ineffective landmine out of them a year after the flight suit victory speech of George Bush if you have sarin stockpiles - you use them during the conflict itself. And yet it never happened.

At best, some bozo found a mislabeled artillery shell. And at worst, far more sinister implications have to be asked about - would a desperate President facing certain electoral defeat over his poor performance stoop this low? You would not at first think so, but with Seymour Hersh's revelations about institutional torture, you can't rule anything out anymore.

Certainly, the totally spent credibility of the Bush regime should give anyone pause. If David Kay couldn't find any WMD, how did a bunch of insurgents (who have less and less to do with the Ba'ath with each passing day) find them?

I've never been much for conspiracy theories. But I don't know what to believe anymore.