On Weapons of Mass Distraction
Since I'm lazy and Jim did such a great job of analysis on Tony Blair's 50 pages, I'll just provide a few teasers and the link. Everyone should include Objectionable Content on their list of daily reads.
Despite Blair's attempt to characterize the threat from Iraq as "current and serious," it appears clear from his own dossier that the threat is years out at best.
Although Iraq may have a nuclear weapon (a weapon) in as little as one year if it can obtain fissile material, it will not have the capability to deliver such a weapon even the 650km range of its al-Hussein missiles, because the report indicates that these missiles are only "capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads."
"If Saddam manages one day to build a crude nuclear device, he's still far from having the technology to make a small, transportable weapon that terrorists could deploy," says a TIME Magazine article entitled What does Saddam have?
