doodledee

So in case you haven't noticed, in the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom, coalition forces haven't found the presumed buttload of Weapons of Mass Destruction that were supposed to just be lying around. You may not have noticed because apparently people don't care and haven't been making a big deal out of it. (Is it even a big deal? The war is over, right? Wait, what do the polls say?)

The conspiracy fans out there remind us that "we'll find whatever we need to find" but that sounds too cynical even for me. My theory is that Saddam never actually had them, but that he personally believed that he did. This is where the "don't piss off Saddam" atmosphere kind of bit him in the ass. After all, if you were a scientist working on building Saddam's nuclear bomb, are you going to tell him that it's not going well? I think not. I think you tell him that it's going great! Couldn't be better! No, thank you, sir!

And what's more, if Saddam and his top brass are convinced that Iraq actually has WMD, it's not hard to believe that the CIA might think so, too. And last time I checked, the CIA gets to talk with the President from time to time. La-la-la-la, connect the dots.

So another prediction: few, if any, weapons of mass destruction will ever be found.