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I think they've likely already found plenty of stuff...No embeds are with the special forces who were taasked with taking them out early, or with the WMD teams.
There's been no comment on some finds, and denials of others.

I expect the plan is to present all the evidence at once rather than let finds dribble out and let people debate about individual issues.

Staregically, I think it makes a lot more sense to be mum, and present a complete document months down the road which details all activities - including places, names, testimony, equipment, and weapons finds. Make a real document like the one Iraq was supposed to submit last year, and then let the UN come in and verify it's destuction.

In addition to a comprehensive report being far more compelling and convincing, I would think that they don't want Iraqi scientists and generals to know what we know when we interrogate them.

So I'd expect that keeping quiet about any WMD finds for the time being is part of Centcom/DOD strategy, and it is why we haven't heard anything except what embeds have picked up from folks in the field.

You are probably dead on with that assesment. It completely makes sense and is the adult way to go about it.

The fringe benefit of the strategy is going to be watching the dims and hollywierd leftists carp for a couple months, and be made complete fools of once again when the evidence is unleashed en masse. the lefties can't resist screaming that we went to war for no good reason. Bush is going to let them dig themselves another hole and then throw dirt in it on top of them once its too deep to crawl back out of.

I made these remarks on the original thread reporting about the 11 containers:

"I have noticed that the only ones hyperventilating about not yet finding WMD are the internationals, most particularly the news media, and of course many impatient denizens of FR (I've found myself drifting into this mode a time or two myself). Bush, Rumsfeld, Franks, et. al. have been calmly saying things like nothing yet has been found, but it is still very early. They don't seem to be worried one bit."

It would seem that the Bush Administration and the military are working this thing methodically. My guess is that they have found some for sure and are just making sure that the case is unequivocal.