Oubai found another report fleshing out Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's relationship with Saddam Hussein and willingness to aid the Iraqi Ba'athist in [the event of military action]. (Syria, of course, enjoyed a seat at the United Nations Security Council as well as the Commission for Human Rights last year; step over here for a bitter laugh at internationalist farce.)

[This comes on the heels of a quiet, steady drumbeat of suspicion that Syria was given some of Ba'athist Iraq's WMD material.] Remember: if you're going to quote David Kay's assertion that "based on what [he saw]...we're very unlikely to find large stockpiles of weapons" you ought to start with his second point that "the intelligence community owes the president rather than the president owing the American people," and then round it all off with his remark that "There is ample evidence of movement to Syria before the war — satellite photographs, reports on the ground of a constant stream of trucks, cars, rail traffic across the border. We simply don't know what was moved."

No, we don't. What the Allies are fairly sure of is crossing from Syria into Iraq — foreign fighters, equipment, resources. Again and again, Syria provides an answer to WMDs and Iraq's security, a country that is an unarguably consequential belligerent in the war on terror.

[A few adjustments at 9:58 EDT.]

WORD JUST KEEPS COMING IN: Am I out on a limb? Not likely.