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The Lynchpin?
 
Michael Ubaldi, June 21, 2003.
 

Fox News reports a possible watershed:

Documents bearing the seal of Saddam Hussein's secret service were seized early Saturday by U.S. forces during a raid of a Baghdad (search) community hall.

The documents, which were handed over to senior intelligence analysts, mentioned Iraq's nuclear program and may possibly contain information regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

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Some of the documents seized Saturday included manifests for the delivery of communications equipment to the Iraqi nuclear agency. One letter, dated Feb. 7, 1998, from the National Security Council of Iraq was addressed to the Iraqi Nuclear Organization, with a carbon to the Mukhabarat, the secret intelligence service.


If true, this is reason enough to take to task those who have spent the last month and a half on Saddam Hussein's side in the matter. The credibility guillotine will come right down on the despotaphiles' heads. Amazingly, it already has several times before: the refugees, the casualties, the Arab pandemonium, the terrorist conflagration; all threatened, none of which ever transpired. The despotaphiles didn't learn. They probably never will - but that's no reason for us not to chastise them before we ignore them on further matters.

More importantly, success in weapons accounting will complete the initial objectives. Saddam will have been vanquished; his tentacles of violent consumation and horrid esurience will have been cut and those of the terrorists snipped back a bit. We're winning.