The Missing WMD

The big argument about the Iraq War has been over the issue of weapons of mass destruction and whether or not they existed in Iraq. Of course, we know they did at one time since Saddam was never shy about using them against his own people. When coalition forces took over the country in 2003, the WMD was gone, and now we may have an explanation of how it left and where it went (h/t The Corner):

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

It's been speculated for a long time that the stuff ended up in Syria. The question now is what to do about it.