Interesting

Charles Krauthammer has an interesting column in the Post today called "WMD in a Haystack," in which he discusses the recent Kay report on Iraq's WMD. His thesis is that Hussein made a strategic decision no to maintain stocks of weapons but rather the ability to make them quickly:

The fact that Hussein may have decided to go from building up stocks to maintaining clandestine production facilities (may have: remember, Kay still has 120 depots to go through) does not mean that he got out of the WMD business. Otherwise, by that logic, one would have to say that until the very moment at which the plutonium from its 8,000 processed fuel rods is wedded to waiting nuclear devices, North Korea does not have a nuclear program.
Hussein was simply making his WMD program more efficient and concealable. His intent and capacity were unchanged.

This is an angle I have not seen explored before, and it is worth a quick look.
- posted by Anonymous @ 8:39 AM