Right Where They Were Supposed to Be

Michael Ubaldi, April 27, 2004.

Last night I noted some of David Kay's statements that haven't stuck in our minds as well as they should. Glenn Reynolds found more, from David Kay and beyond:

New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were widely judged in the media and by critics of President George W. Bush as having been false are turning out to have been true after all. But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media, and the president's critics continue to insist that "no weapons" have been found.
In virtually every case - chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic missiles - the United States has found the weapons and the programs that the Iraqi dictator successfully concealed for 12 years from U.N. weapons inspectors.

This is a watershed. The only story larger than the volume of discoveries is the odd narrative of the Iraqi Survey Group suppressing its publication. In any case, those who don't bother to acknowledge and challenge these facts have no business accusing the president, his administration — or for that matter anyone who believed Saddam Hussein continued in defiance to maintain a nonconventional arsenal — of misleading the American public. (Here's more on WMDs in Syria.)