"US Offers Rewards in Iraq Weapons Hunt," reports the AP, referring to an ad in Arabic on U.S.-run Information Radio:
"American authorities have promised rewards to Iraqis for information leading to discovery of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons programs, the U.S.-run Information Radio said Saturday. The reward announcement comes as the U.S. military teams have so far been unable to find solid evidence of Iraqi projects for weapons on mass destruction."
Hmm. . .If substituting US for UN weapons inspectors in Iraq is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank, doesn't dangling reward money take potential-for-fraud to a whole new level?
Reminds me of an apocryphal story I read some years back in Comfort Zone, a mystery novel about the Vietnam War by Christopher C. Moore. Republic-of-Vietnam (RVN) authorities wanted to exterminate rats at a refugee camp. They offered to pay ten cents for any rat—dead or alive—that was turned over to them. Guess how long it took for entrepreneurially-minded soldiers to start breeding the critters in hidden cages throughout the camp.
Granted it's harder to smuggle in WMDs than breed rats in post-Saddam Iraq. So Rove and the neocons will just have to make do with a smog of rumor in lieu of actual, sarin-filled 122-millimeter rockets.
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