Where are Iraqs weapons of mass destruction?
By Pauline Jelinek In the American hunt for Iraq’s banned weapons, drums of suspicious chemicals turn out to be crop pesticide; a cache of white powder is found to be explosives. More than six weeks into the Iraq campaign, there has been a string of false alarms but no discovery of what the Bush administration said was its main justification for going to war – chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. “As someone who supported the war, … I wish they’d hurry up and find something,” said John Pike, an analyst at GlobalSecurity.org. But Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says “I’m not frustrated at all” by the lack of evidence so far. A military official involved with the search teams said last week they are under “intense pressure from Washington to come up with something.” The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the teams are overwhelmed with work and looking forward to promised reinforcements. “Clearly the administration has got to deliver the goods,” said
