Amid
all the stories about the ongoing violence in Syria, the most
disturbing is the possibility that President Bashar Assad could either
deploy the arsenal of chemical and biological weapons that his
government claims it has, or provide it to terrorists.
There are suggestions that at least some of Assad’s supposed
stockpile may have come from Saddam Hussein’s frantic, eleventh-hour
efforts in 2002 to hide his own arsenals of weapons of mass destruction
in neighboring Syria. Various retired Iraqi military officers have
alleged as much. Although the story was met with general neglect or
scorn from the American media, the present U.S. director of national
intelligence, James Clapper, long ago asserted his belief in such a
weapons transfer.The Bush administration fixated on WMD in justifying the invasion of Iraq while largely ignoring more than 20 other writs to remove Saddam, as authorized by Congress in October 2002. That obsession would come back to haunt George W. Bush when stockpiles of deployable WMD failed to turn up in postwar Iraq. By 2006, “Bush lied; thousands died,” was the serial charge of the antiwar Left. But before long, such depots may finally turn up in Syria.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312299/iraqi-irony-victor-davis-hanson
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