February 9, 2004

WMDs in Iraq - Pot plants in California

Interesting observation by Roger L. Simon on the David Kay's blanket statement on WMDs: bq. I couldn’t help wondering, however, why no one (certainly not Russert) ever asked him what I think is the basic question underlying the issue du jour. How could David Kay possibly know there are no significant WMDs in Iraq? bq. I have lived in California for over thirty years (a state which, as we have heard ad nauseum, is about the same size as that Middle Eastern country) and I wouldn’t know where to begin to find WMDs here, if someone really wanted to hide them, even if I had five thousand people working with me, make that thirty-five thousand (which Kay didn’t). A suitcase or two or even five of biological weapons could disappear in the Sierra Nevada or—more to the point perhaps—in the Mojave or Anza Borrego Deserts, not to mention Death Valley or Joshua Tree National Monument, in a heartbeat. As most in my generation know, acres of marijuana fields have been growing secretly in Humboldt County for decades. Repeat: that’s acres. So I don’t get it? Maybe it’s easier to find WMDs than pot plantations, but I wouldn’t think so. Nevertheless, Dr. Kay was supposed to have wrapped this up in six months. I don’t believe it. I think his report is factually meaningless, but what do I know? Heh... Posted by DaveH at February 9, 2004 4:25 PM