Is there anywhere in the blogosphere where the Left clearly defines what WMDs are, what they look like, how many people can be killed by them before they enter the "mass" category, how much room a WMD takes up, etc.? I would think just 2 such warheards constitute the plural definition. Are they expecting a whole hangar, 100 yards long, filled with huge, menacing-looking steel tubes of death?

Let's calculate how much room the sarin-filled warheads take up, cuz we get our shorts in a twist over "suitcase" bombs, fer cryin' out loud! Go hide two suitcases in California and challenge the whole damn world to find them. Maybe the Left wants to see acres and acres of bombs that can each kill 10,000 people, but even evil despots want to keep their money from financing overkill; better to spend on palaces. After all, use up a couple hundred warheads and your world will get kinda lonely.

I'm just asking...

Look at it this way: they want to make the case that Bush lied to drag us into a war that wasn't necessary. It's all a bit vague, of course, but when I've debated folks on this, this seems to be the implication: Bush said that Saddam had intercontinental weapons that could strike America within 90 minutes and kill 100 million.

This is a straw man because Bush never made that argument. His reasons for going to war were, in order:

1) Saddam has not complied with 11 years of U.N. resolutions.

2) Because of the Baathist philosophy of Arabs-uber-alles, Hussein's close dealings with terrorists, his demonstrated desire to pursue weapons programs, and his attempts to attack Americans, it is quite likely that he could and would have sold weapons or materials to terrorist organizations. These would surely have made their way to American soil sooner or later.

3) It is in the best interest of the West to make an attempt to change the very nature of the Middle East by transforming Iraq into a model of freedom and rule-of-law that will attract other Arabs to abandon their current malaise.

4) The Iraqi people are being tortured and ought to be freed.

But by attempting to frame the discussion in terms of "Saddam has nukes and he's about to launch them at New York!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", the Left can effectively turn the quite reasonable cause for war into a conspiracy theory for Halliburton profits.

Well, whatever. I'm just so sick of not getting anywhere with those freaks that I'm quickly ceasing to care. If they want to believe crap like that and not go fricking READ the SOTU speeches, fine.

That was me, sorry.

Powerline has a nice picture of the roomful of menacing steel tubes of death--okay,cigars of death, the Polish found. Here's a link, I hope: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007070.php

David Kay's report indicated facilities for chemical and bio weapons - and that was a long time ago - and yet the same argument got trotted out that there were no WMDs. This led me to conclude, a long time ago, that to a liberal, a WMD does not include chemical or biological weapons regardless of killing capacity. A WMD means a nuclear warhead, affixed to a long-range missile, which is clearly labelled, in English, "Nuclear Bomb." And there must be at least a moderately-sized warehouse stacked floor to ceiling with them. Burying them means they cease to be WMDs, because everyone knows a buried weapon cannot be fired.

Sarin doesn't fit the above definition, folks. Sorry, but Bush lied, people died.

There is some kind of cockup going on about these warheads. The Poles are saying they have them with cyclosarin, and CENTCOM (that would be us) is saying they don't.

This one is seriously pissing me off.

I think the situation is this: Yes, there was cyclosarin, but it had degraded past the point where it was a significant threat. More disturbingly, these seem to have been mortar bombs, not artillery shells, and were not binary weapons - implying that if there are more of them what were not degraded they would make operational chemical improvised explosive devices. I hope we and the Poles are moving fast to find out where these came from and where the rest are.