Agenda

Listened to Russert on the Today show this morning (yeah, I know - I should stop).

Talking about the war in Iraq, Russert said (I'm paraphrasing very closely here, but it's not quite a quote) that the Abu Ghraib scandal continues to hack away at the justifiation for the war, since no WMDs have been found.

No WMDs have been found.

I'm convinced - the Islamofascists could set off a sarin bomb (four liters or forty or four thousand) in Birmingham or Dallas or Pierre, in a truck labelled "From Uday With Love, Allahu Akbar", and NBC et al wouldn't make the connection - or bury it - until something happened in New York proper.

UPDATE: Smash's analysis of the sarin shell. Read the whole piece for the assumptions involved - which lead to his conclusions:

• Sometime between 1988-95, Saddam developed and manufactured sophisticated, “mix-in-flight” binary chemical weapons.

• He failed to declare these weapons, as required, to UN weapons inspectors.

• Iraq did not destroy all of its chemical weapons.

• A stockpile of artillery shells, including at least some that contain chemical warheads, has been found by “insurgents” in Iraq.