Inspectors Find Empty Warheads in an Iraqi Depot:

Has the dysadministration found its pretext? Increasingly desperate at U.N. inspectors’ not coming up with evidence of “material breaches” of U.N. disarmament resolutions, the U.S. continues to emphasize discrepancies in Baghdad’s December weapons declaration. The eleven 122-mm. warheads appear to be left over from the Iran-Iraq war and, it bears repeating, were empty. NY Times They just weren’t listed. There will, of course, be endless debates about whether the Iraqis are merely clerically negligent or deliberately deceptive. If the latter, it would hardly pay for them to be concealing a mere eleven empty warheads, and not concealing them very well at that, would it? [Can’t wait for the Hollywood blockbuster with the inside story about the arms inspectors!] But of course Rumsfeld thinks it is precisely the fact that the inspectors haven’t found anything damning that proved that the Iraqis are concealing something…