But don’t expect anyone to mention that. Or ponder who is going to do what with them. Connecting the dots, Aaron asks an interesting question on why the Iraqis just may want us out sooner rather than later.

Has ANYONE mentioned the possibility that the reason the Iraqis want the US out now is that they KNOW they have WMDs and that they want them for themselves for a post-Saddam Iraq?

It’d be quite a coup for a new Iraqi government (one man, one vote, one time in the usual Islamic fashion, no doubt) to have a “surprise” for the region a few years from now.

Iraq doesn’t want to be demilitarized (neutered) as Japan and Germany were after WWII. Of course, doing that is among the many parts of a comprehensive cure for the region.

Makes you think, oh read it all. Then ponder this from Larry Elder.

Jordan recently seized 20 tons of chemicals trucked in by confessed al Qaeda members who brought the stuff in from Syria. The chemicals included VX, Sarin and 70 others. But the media seems curiously incurious about whether one could reasonably trace this stuff back to Iraq. Had the terrorists released a “toxic cloud,” Jordanian officials say 80,000 would have died!

He interviewed a terrorism expert, a brief excerpt follows.

John Loftus: There’s a lot of reason to think (the source of the chemicals) might be Iraq. We captured Iraqi members of al Qaeda, who’ve been trained in Iraq, planned for the mission in Iraq, and now they’re in Jordan with nerve gas. That’s not the kind of thing you buy in a grocery store. You have to have obtained it from someplace.

And for those that deny the possibility that the WMD are in Syria.

Loftus: A possibility? We had a Syrian journalist who defected to Paris in January. The guy is dying of cancer, and he said, “Look, my friends in Syrian intelligence told me exactly where the stuff is buried.” He named three sites in Syria, and the Israelis have confirmed the three sites. They know where the stuff is, but the problem is that the United States can’t just go around invading Arab countries… We know from Israeli and defectors’ intelligence that the son of the Syrian defense minister was paid 50 million bucks to bring the stuff across the border and bury it.

It would appear Iraq has the WMD, whether in Iraq, in Syria, or in the hands of Al Qaeda, and those that have it want to use it against us btw.

Hat tip to Lean Wright for the Elder article.