If you don't already know, "Where did the WMDs go?", is something I'm obsessed with. I haven't been able to, and don't think I ever will accept the "bad intel, they were never there" line. It just doesn't make sense when we knew he had and used the stuff, we know there are stockpiles unaccounted for, we know he was a brutal murderous dictator so there is no reason to believe he decided to get rid of the stuff on his own, without proving it to the UN and making things easier on himself. Not to mention that virtually all intelligence agencies from around the world seemed to agree he had the stuff.

Add in all the reports of WMDs being moved to/through Syria at various times throughout the war, even by Russian military in the weeks leading up to the war. I can't count how many brief stories I remember hearing about WMD finds and transportation in the first year of the war, only to never have any follow-ups. I've hoped this was because military intelligence is connecting dots and chasing the stuff down through Syria, and not wanting to pump a story and give a heads up to the enemy and compromise the mission.

Anyway, the point is... we all believed the stuff was there, and to believe it wasn't now is to belive that Saddam was the good guy and destroyed it on his own, and decided not to tell anyone.

What WMDs? That mushroom cloud is a product of Michael Moore after enjoying a meal at Baghdad's first Taco Bell. No WMDs though... And oh yeah, we're winning.

Enter today's former member of Saddam's regime who claims to have WMD knowledge. There have been a bunch of these guys, and I suppose motives (selling books, etc.) are good reason for skepticism. But since I have always believed they were moved to/through Syria, I believe this is an important story that the media will be in a hurry to ignore.

I began reading this earlier and got sidetracked, but Michelle Malkin pulled me back in, and I'm going to use the same exceprt as her, because it's the best one to draw you in:

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."

Be sure to read the entire article from The New York Sun, it's broken in to 4 pages.

Of course, we'll need the proof for this to ever make any difference in the real world, but I think everytime we hear about one of these guys I cautiously feel a little more validated in my position. Let's just hope we round the stuff up before it gets over here. We know other weapons parts were turning up as far away as the Netherlands, why is it so hard to believe that the treasured WMDs were snuck in to Syria, especially after they got a head start from Senator Rockefeller. For other links on WMDs, see my "Smack libs with..." section in lower part of the right sidebar.

UPDATE: Rightwing Nuthouse's Rick Moran has a great post up about this, saying everything I wanted to say... only much better and in a clearer way. His post is jam packed with great links, that I would have liked to have provided if my bookmarks weren't so disorganized. A definite must read.