It is the world’s most carefully monitored scavenger hunt, and so far the Bush Administration’s basket is empty. After months of impassioned speeches to the UN and the rest of the world, citing intelligence reports on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. has yet to produce the proof.
The administration has just announced it is sending another 2000 people to Iraq to join in a search that has so far turned up only barrels of rocket fuel, suspicious trailers and pesticides. Critics of the war say the lack of evidence shows that the administration lied and the war was a fraud. But supporters argue that the weapons will be found in time, but even if they aren’t, who cares? Saddam is gone, Iraq has been liberated, and the world is a safer place.
Guests:
David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security, and former nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq
David Kay, senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and former Chief UN nuclear weapons Inspector.