Honey, have you seen my anthrax? I know I left it here somewhere.

Could we have been wrong all along? All of us in the not-so-silent majority, who have insisted that it wasn’t a "slam dunk" case, that the books were cooked, that the administration was simply pursuing their own insidious agenda. Is it possible that there actually WERE weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? If you believe former Iraqi Air Force General Georges Sada, who wrote a book about his experiences while working for Saddam Hussein, then perhaps there were. And over and above the kool-aid drinking holdouts in the Bush administration, there are others who insist that this is the case. Among them are several members of the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities.

Even David Kay and Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. WMD investigator after the invasion, have admitted that the possibility exists that Hussein transferred WMD materials across the border to Syria before the invasion. This is precisely the assertion that Sada makes in his book, "Saddam’s Secrets". Now this is not a new story to me, I’ve heard it suggested many times before. In the past, I dismissed it as simply a story pushed by the administration to cover their collective ass.

But I had not heard of Georges Sada before, or his book, which I believe was published sometime late last year or early this year. Fortunately for me, I watched the Daily Show last night, and Jon’s guest was General Sada. The General came across (to me at least) as someone who was not trying to push an agenda, and actually believed what he wrote in the book. Only time and further investigation will tell whether he was correct.

So, for argument’s sake, let’s assume for a moment that the General was right. Let’s assume that Saddam Hussein DID have stockpiles of WMDs. And that somehow, under the cover of darkness, and apparently right under the nose of the U.S. military, he managed to smuggle those weapons into Syria. What does that mean to America, and the rest of the world, now, and in the future?

It means we’re in deep shit, that’s what it means. And it means that this administration screwed up even WORSE than we thought it had. A different screw up to be sure, but a MAJOR screw up, nonetheless. It means that instead of dealing with a large military with WMDs vs. a larger military with the wherewithal to deal with them; we now have the largest state sponsor of terrorism with a stockpile of WMDs, able to arm terrorists bent on using these weapons on civilian populations. Specifically, American civilian populations. It means that the U.S., as well as the rest of the world, can be held hostage.

Scared yet? Good. You should be. Because we’re potentially talking about highly processed anthrax, weaponized and ready to go. We’re talking sarin, GF, mustard, and potentially VX. Better living through chemistry, eh? If this IS the case, if Syria now has possession of stockpiles of WMDs, it represents a crisis of major, if not biblical proportions.

Even knowing this (if it’s true) I STILL do not support our decision to invade Iraq. In fact, I oppose it even more. Why, you wonder? Because the warpath of the so-called "global war on terror" never led through Baghdad. However, it has ALWAYS run straight through Damascus. I’m not even in the intelligence business, and I know that.

But apparently, Syria doesn’t have the major stockpiles of another commodity that Bush & Co. were searching for. Oil. So obviously Syria, even with its deep and proven connections to terrorism, wasn’t the type of target Bush was looking for. Perhaps that’s why the administration is continuing to ratchet up the rhetoric on Iran, while apparently ignoring Syria and North Korea. Iran has oil, the other two only have WMDs.

So what do we do now? We pray that General Sada was mistaken. Because if he is right, then short of:

A. A surprise invasion of Syria. (we don’t seem to be very good at this sort of thing)
B. All the terrorists surrendering (better chance of seeing God)
C. Some really great human intelligence (again, we don’t seem to be very good at this)
D. Divine intervention (again, better chance of seeing… you know what I mean)

we are in some really deep doo-doo.