More Answers

The Reading Eagle is looking for more WMD answers.

The Issue: A report summary is released on the discovery in 2003 of caches of munitions in Iraq containing degraded mustard gas and serin nerve agents.

Our Opinion: The motive for releasing the summary and the White House response to it are puzzling.

Do 500 pre-Persian Gulf War shells, canisters and other types of munitions containing degraded mustard gas and sarin nerve agents constitute a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction that would justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq?

That’s one of the questions raised last week by the release of a declassified summary of an Army report. Another question is why are we finding about it only now.

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In any case, the officials said if the insurgents could get their hands on them, the degraded devices still could be used to create improvised weapons that could be deadly to people nearby.

The release of the summary has raised many questions, but few answers have been provided.

At this point, these weapons hardly can be considered the smok-ing gun that would justify the invasion — not without a lot more answers.