Heh, just think, another scandal or two and Clinton might have bombed that one.
I was thinking though, and I think others agree, that since it's one shell, it's really not a big deal, since there are probably caches of conventional artillery shells all over Iraq and it could have gotten mixed in.
After all, the guerillas we are fighting are not going to validate any reason we have for being there, and using anything remotely resembling a WMD would give Bush and the others the chance to say "SEE! We told you there were WMD in Iraq!!".
first your assuming there is only one shell which is not even likely let alone logical. But putting that asside lets put some context in this. For over a year now we have not seen any use of chemical weapons but suddenly with the hand over of power just around the corner we have a shell with mustard gas, a shell with Sarin, and a attempt by al queda from Iraq to use a "chemical bomb" reported to contain Sarin (among other chemicals) to kill thousands of people. Does that not seem a little coincidental? I suspect the terrorist realize they are losing and are pulling out all the stops now and that includes dipping into the WMD caches hidden by Saddam. And its working I heard yesterday that Iraqis are very fearful that these chemical weapons are going to be used on them by the terrorists.
"After all, the guerillas we are fighting are not going to validate any reason we have for being there, and using anything remotely resembling a WMD would give Bush and the others the chance to say "SEE! We told you there were WMD in Iraq!!"."
I think you are forgetting the gorillas [not sic] are animals and spawns of the devil with brains the size of a radish. (see Nick Berg et al.)