Musings of a Mumbai bloke

Since the past 9 months A team of US investigators have been making a last ditch effort to unearth evidence for the much touted Weapons of Mass destruction program in Iraq. Today Washington Post carried an article

"Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on Paper Since Gulf War, Nonconventional Weapons Never Got Past the Planning Stage "by By Barton Gellman
He writes, " investigators have found no support for the two main fears expressed in London and Washington before the war: that Iraq had a hidden arsenal of old weapons and built advanced programs for new ones.......they have discovered no work on former germ-warfare agents such as anthrax bacteria, and no work on a new designer pathogen.... The investigators assess that Iraq did not, as charged in London and Washington, resume production of its most lethal nerve agent, VX, or learn to make it last longer in storage. And they have found the former nuclear weapons program, described as a "grave and gathering danger" by President Bush and a "mortal threat" by Vice President Cheney, in much the same shattered state left by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s."Washington Post article

None of this comes as a surprise though. what surprises me the most is how this news item gets burried under all the other media driven stories.More than 480 soldiers have lost their lives and more than 9000 injured/sick had to be evacuated from Iraq according to this story on NPR The NPR story goes to describe how the reporter had a difficult time with the US military which would not give him an accurate report about injured soldiers. Another NPR story described how the military IS NOT keeping a record of number of civillian deaths. if about ten thousand of US military have been either killed or injured can we imagine the scale of lost iraqi lives?



What a shameful loss!!!