Chemical Weapons in Iraq

It's being reported that a suspected chemical weapons plant has been found in Mosul.

Of course, the story goes to great pains to point out that the plant has been constituted since the downfall of Saddam Hussein. Even so, the fact that the bad guys have the knowledge -- and the ingredients -- to make this stuff doesn't exactly suggest that the US was wrong to worry about what could happen in Iraq, even under the "watchful" eye of U.N. diplomatics (not counting, of course, those who were actually being bribed -- like this one and this one, for starters).

Update: Over at Daily Kos, they seem to believe that, "Where no chemical warfare threat existed before, it now does." They have a lot of confidence in a bunch of insurgents if they think they could create the weapons out of thin air and/or get them into Iraq in a little over two years -- with no prior knowledge or ability or allies to help them.

What the KosKids aren't getting: The chemical warfare threat wasn't generated by the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. It exists (and has existed) as long as there are regimes with scientists who have the interest and capacity to create it (like Saddam's) for the Islamofascist moonbats. The answer? Well, presumably, according to Kos -- it was that the U.S. should just ignore, bribe, pacify or appease Saddam, and hope that he'd "do the right thing."

Apparently, in KosWorld, it's better to leave Saddam in power (believing that the WMD were there -- as everyone, even France and CNN, did) than to invade Iraq. Then, of course, there would never have been any chemical weapons threat at all. The guys who have created the factory would, instead, would just have spent their time harmlessly torturing Iraqi civilians. Yeah, that's the ticket. Right.