Irony kills

I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out the irony behind this one:

U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.

Monday's early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, "some of them quite dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad.

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Boylan said the suspected lab was new, dating from some time after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Bush administration cited evidence that Saddam Hussein's government was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for the invasion. No such weapons or factories were found.

We can only hope they had yet to make any chemical weapons (if indeed this was a chemical lab)to use on our troops and that this is the only facility that's been built so far.

So the discovery that we've made the country less safe will no doubt become the latest arguement for us to stay.

*sigh*