This LA Times piece points out that the uranium stocks, which it says could be enriched to weapons material, lay unguarded after their Iraqi custodians fled. US forces were not even aware of their existence for several days. Garret Vreeland pointed to this, noting how much background on the search for clandestine weapons it contains. As readers know, I’ve remained skeptical about the WMD rationale for the attack on Iraq. The article notes that Saddam may have had any chemical weapons the regime had moved to the Tikrit area, which has not yet fallen to advancing US forces. There’s also speculation on why, if he did indeed have CBW and was backed against the wall as he has been, he did not use them against massing American troops. It has been my point that the restraint he exercised in this regard in the face of US military intimidation, the potential harsh judgment of world opinion and/or the threat of war crimes prosecution, gives the lie to Bush’s “imminent danger” argument.