First Iraqi WMD Found -- in New York!

More than four years after the United States and its little helpers re-invaded Iraq, Iraqi chemical substances that could be used in illegal weapons surfaced -- at a United Nations office in New York City.

So, that's where Saddam hid the WMD's, right under our noses! That shiesty little devil!

Out-of-Work UN inspectors have found more Iraqi unconventional weapons than has the entire US military since the invasion.

A clerical error 11 years ago led to the shipment of Phosgene samples from an Iraqi laboratory to the UN weapons inspectors' offices, instead of a chemical lab. A byzantine labeling system -- probably similar to the one I use on ziplocs in my freezer -- made identifying the mysterious containers nearly impossible.

Though the containers only held grams of the substance, it was enough to give White House spokesman and former FOX News character Tony Snow some good anti-UN ammunition.

"I’m sure that there are going to be a lot of red-faced people over at the U.N. trying to figure out how they got there.”

I wonder if anyone in the White House was red-faced when they read the same observation I made about the underlying irony, albeit in more polite form, in the first sentances of the New York Times article on this:

No unconventional weapons were found in Iraq after the United States-led invasion in 2003. But a potentially deadly chemical agent produced by Saddam Hussein’s regime has turned up, improbably, in an office at the United Nations in New York, and it had the F.B.I. and the city police scrambling yesterday.

So the smoking gun is not in the shape of a mushroom cloud, but is rather two small steel containers sitting on a shelf in an United Nations office.