[link|http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/63758.htm|Imagine what an adequate team would find]

Excerpt:

December 5, 2002 -- U.N. weapons inspectors found mustard gas yesterday inside Iraqi artillery shells at a military complex north of Baghdad.

The inspectors had already known the gas and shells were stored at the Muthanna military site but hadn't yet been destroyed when the previous inspection team left Iraq in 1998.

Still, it was the first discovery of a chemical weapon since the United Nations returned to the country, inspector Dimitri Perricos said, adding, "Of course we are interested, because it is a good quantity of mustard."

Meanwhile, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has pressed chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix to get more aggressive on Iraq and do multisite inspections, U.S. officials said yesterday.

I say:

So it was actually the `98 team that found it, and this bunch just, er, re-found it. Saddam screwed up forgetting to move this batch.

No kudos to the UN team for finding this. In light of the circumstances above, this has dumb luck written all over it. Given a sufficiently vast quantity of WMD lying around, even a team like this can manage to find something. But what do all you apologists for this murderous thug have to say for yourselves now?