No WMD in Iraq?

It seems that since General David Petraeus has taken command of the Coalition forces in Iraq, the official state of denial about Iraq's WMD from both MNF-I Headquarters and the Pentagon has been lifted concerning "insurgent" use of chemical weapons. In a report from the Army News Service, Gen. Petraeus issued a written statement blasting Al-Qaeda and its allied insurgents for the "barbaric actions against innocent Iraqi citizens." The attacks were carried out on crowded market places using conventional high-explosives and chlorine gas, resulting in the deaths of over 50 Iraqis and sickening hundreds, including 14 US Soldiers.

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Since the start of OIF, the Coalition and the Pentagon have ignored or sloughed off as inconsequential reports of US Soldiers and Marines finding WMDs and weapons labs containing huge quantities of precursors. These denials continued despite the fact that some of our service members and civilians became sick as a result of either finding chemical storage bunkers near weapons caches or chemical rounds wired as IEDs.