Iraq
Mood:  celebratory
A lot of us are wondering where are the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?? The ones Bush and company used as pretexts for the war. My theory is this, the weapons never existed or at least in the numbers advertised. They were a hoax but not a hoax by the Bush administration. The scientists and administrators in charge of the Iraqi WMD program lied to Saddam and his sons. They told Saddam they were manufacturing tons of WMD when they weren't making a thing. They did this for two reasons, first they had neither the technology or resources to carry out Saddam's wishes, and second if they lied to Saddam they could divert the money and resources Saddam gave them for the resource for their own use. Instead of making WMD the IRaqi experts simply sent Saddam a report about the work they were doing and pocketed the money. That is how totaltarian regimes often operate. Since there were no Congressional committees and no free press in Iraq to expose their wrong doing the Iraqi experts had no reason to assume they'd be caught. Similar things happened in other totalitarian regimes. In Nazi Germany, Hitler thought his scientists were close to developing an atomic bomb he even bragged about it to Romania's dictator in 1944. Yet in reality the scientists were nowhere near developing a German bomb. Hitler of course had no way of knowing this. The only evidnence he had was the reports written by the scientists, many of whom were political opponents of Hitler's who didn't want to give Adolph a super weapon. In the Soviet Union, Russian experts told the Kremlin bosses that their economy was working when it wasn't. So my guess is the IRaqi experts faked the reports, they told Saddam what he wanted to hear and did nothing. We'll find that the vaunted IRaqi WMD program was nothing but a collection of lies and a few jars of germs.