Talking Points Memo has some disturbing CPA documents.

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And yet we know there were active WMD programs at one time.

That's not relevant to the debate about why we went to war, or whether intelligence was manipulated. But it is relevant for another reason: those scientists who did the work are still there. And the knowledge for how to make all sorts of nasty stuff is still in their heads.

It would sort of be a bummer if they ended up putting that knowledge to work for al Qaida or the Syrians or anyone else for that matter.

Now, the people at the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) have thought of this. But the programs aimed at putting these guys to work, according to the documents I'm looking at, are woefully underfunded and getting held up by the same old interagency mumbo-jumbo. And of course all the while we're sinking lots of money into the on-going search for WMD that pretty clearly is never going to be found.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/


Remembering that Iraqi nuke scientist with the rose garden, and how they sandbagged him, and how they underfund the retirement of Russian nukes, I can't help but worry.