Finding the WMD
"There is a famous Soviet joke about the impossibility of being right: Workers who arrived early at the workplace were accused of espionage, those who arrived late were guilty of sabotage, and those who got there on time were despised for petty bourgeois conformism.
" As the war in Iraq winds down, something similar is happening in the debate over weapons of mass destruction. An early discovery by coalition forces would have proven that operational intelligence was not provided to international inspectors, late findings would show that evidence had been planted by the CIA, while no discovery of proscribed weapons would ruin the main justification of the war." (Therese Delpech, French commissioner of the U.N. Disarmament commission on Iraq, arguing in an Op-Ed piece that the search must go on for WMD. Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2003, pg. A18.)


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