More Pieces in the Puzzle of Pre-War Iraq

It is also unclear from Aziz's interrogations the quantities of WMD Iraq possessed before the war. However, Aziz did suggest that Hussein was less concerned about the chemical WMD stockpiles because he could always recreate them so long as he maintained the infrastructure to do so. This perspective is lent credence by the fact that laboratories suitable for this have been discovered by David Kay and his team of inspectors. Hussein was intent on acquiring what was, from his perspective, more difficult to obtain than WMD. Hussein wanted long range missiles. He was perhaps negotiating with the North Koreans for the appropriate technology. Kay investigators have found considerable evidence of Hussein's efforts to obtain long range delivery systems.

Slowly the pieces of the Iraq puzzle are coming together. There are still large gaps. Indeed the unknown gaps in the puzzle are probably larger than the areas that have been fully fully assembled. Incrementally, day-by-day we can expect to learn what was going on in Iraq before the war. Learning about pre-war Iraq puts us one step closer to dealing with the Iraq of the present, an Iraq that is not yet freed from its tyrannical past.

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