On WMD

"Trust but verify" has given way to "delay, deal, and delay some more." Has no one learned the lessons from Iraq? Bryan Preston of Junkyard Blog has more:

Just a thought here, thinking strategically. When you intend to invade a country because it possesses WMD, don’t give that country a year of really really obvious indications that you’re going to invade. Like, just to throw something out there, going to the useless, feckless, counter-productive UN and trying for a solid year to get it off its keister and support your invasion. A year is more than enough time to move massive stockpiles a few hundred miles across a friendly border. Hopefully we’ve learned this lesson and will apply it to, again just to throw an idea out there, stopping Iran’s nuclear program.

This comes on the heels of a report in the NY Sun that a top ranking Iraqi air force general, Georges Sada, says that Iraq transferred its WMDs to Syria on board civilian airlines whose seats had been removed. The general is plying a book, which is always a sign that someone has an agenda and an angle. This doesn't mean that the guy's lying or telling the truth - only that we need further investigations.

If true, it goes a long way to proving what many on the right had contended - not to mention what I've thought happened - that Iraq took all the time in the cheat and retreat phase of the Iraq war buildup to move and hide the WMD in places like Syria so that the WMD couldn't be found.

Michelle Malkin and Right Wing Nuthouse have more.

UPDATE:
Mark in Mexico has more background about Sada, including the fact that he risked his neck to make sure that Iraq conformed to the Geneva Convention during the 1991 Gulf War. Qusay Hussein (that would be one of Saddam's murderous sons) wanted to execute the coalition POWs that they had captured, including US pilots downed behind enemy lines. Sada refused the order and risked his own life to uphold the Geneva Convention treatment.