According to Andrew

Andrew Sullivan believes that there is hypocrisy in lamenting Al Qaqaa:

"But it's also true that you cannot both lament the plundering of al Qaqaa and other sites and insist that there were no WMDs in Iraq before the war. Both sides have some reckoning to do."

Well, if the only evidence that there were no WMDs is that we haven't found any, maybe.

However,
(a) Al Qaqaa contained explosives, not WMDs.
(b) That there was systematic looting does not imply that he looting would be so effective as to remove all usable WMDs from Iraq.
(c) If there were usable WMDs, why would the Iraqqis hide them or move htem to other countries rather than (i) use them on the US, or if they liked the US and wanted to be "liberated," (ii) show them to the US to prove their existence?

I'm not certain that Al Qaqaa is the big screw-up that the Kerry supporters thought it was, but there is no hypocrisy in thinking that we let our guard down but doubting that the Iraqis maneaged to conceal stocklpiles of WMDs completely.

That is all.