WMD & WAR

As Americans watch their young men and women fighting in the third year of a bloody counterinsurgency war in Iraq, they are left to ponder "the unanswered question" of what would have happened if the United Nations weapons inspectors had been allowed to complete their work. Thanks to a formerly secret memorandum published by the London Sunday Times on May 1, during the run-up to the British elections, we now have a partial answer to that question.http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18034