6/27/2004 02:42:17 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Of what everyone was actually saying prior to the American invasion of Iraq.

And Saddam demonstrated his willingness to use such weapons: Iraqi troops have employed poison gas against their own rebellious countrymen, and used chemical weapons against Iran in 1988. During the Gulf War, Iraq issued chemical warheads to Army units for possible use against American soldiers.

Recent defectors say U.N. weapons inspectors stand little chance of finding such weapons if and when they are allowed to return. According to these defectors, Saddam has stepped up his efforts. Scientists work under tremendous deadline pressure, and the results of their efforts are hidden in schools, buried in irrigation ditches and even kept mobile.

"They acquired seven trucks from Renault in France and they converted these refrigerated trucks into mobile biological labs," Nabel Musawi of the Iraqi National Congress, a London-based Iraqi opposition group, told ABCNEWS recently.

Now-known credibility problems with Musawi notwithstanding (no one knew then what we know now), the facts were indisputed. To say otherwise, and to put words in the mouth of the administration as though they were unique in their beliefs is, at best, intellectually dishonest.

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