For the past year evidence has been mounting regarding Saddams now-defunct WMD programs in Iraq. Naturally at every turn the opponents of the war have sought to downplay any and every report that supported western intelligence claims regarding his stockpiles, attempts at further development, and methods of obfuscation. So naturally I expect this latest, most damning piece of evidence to be likewise ridiculed and dismissed by the same chorus of voices. I only hope that this gets enough press to counter the liberal propoganda recital that 'the war was based on false pretenses.'

In the first place the threat of Iraqi WMD programs was not the sole, nor the most important reason to unseat that vile regime. And in the second, here's your Chemical Weapons right here:

"The Iraq Survey Group has confirmed today that a 155 (mm) artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found. The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) that was discovered by a U.S. force convoy," he said.

"A detonation occurred before the IED be could be rendered inoperable," Kimmitt said, adding that two members of an explosives team had been treated for exposure to the substance.

Kimmitt said the round, designed to mix the sarin in flight, belonged to a class of ordnance that the ousted government of Saddam Hussein claimed to have destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war.