Hunt for Iraqi Arms Erodes Assumptions

The Bush administration justified the Iraq war on the certainty that the Hussein regime was developing weapons of mass destruction. Now that the war has ended, little evidence has been found to support those claims, leading U.S. officials to call for new search tactics and increased resources. Some analysts worry that if these weapons or the means to produce them are no longer under the control of former Iraqi officials, the war “may prove to aggravate the proliferation threat that President Bush said he fought to forestall.” –YaleGlobal