Sarin in Iraq

A couple of bombs exploded this past week containing chemical weapons (aka, Weapons of Mass Destruction). Not that I'm terribly surprised, nor should anybody else be. Amongst other things, Saddam failed to account for a number of chemical artillery warheads; what we're seeing now are a few of those turning up:

[the Iraqi Survey Group believes that] the mustard gas shell may have been one of 550 projectiles for which former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein failed to account when he made his weapons declaration shortly before Operation Iraqi Freedom began last year. Iraq also failed to then account for 450 aerial bombs with mustard gas. That, combined with the shells, totaled about 80 tons of unaccounted for mustard gas

I really don't think that this qualifies as the smoking gun, per se. It's not enough evidence to indicate an extensive system of violations. A violation to be sure, but not widespread deception as of yet. If more of these start turning up, then we're going to have more evidence that this is more than just a couple of misplaced or mislabeled warheads.