Search for WMD in Iraq Slows to Crawl

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'MOSUL, Iraq - Before 2nd Lt. Ben Shumaker arrived in Iraq (news - web sites) in late April, he expected to be protecting soldiers against chemical and biological weapons attacks by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s army.'

'There were no such attacks, so Shumaker and his team were put to work looking for hidden weapons of mass destruction — the primary reason given by the Bush administration for the war in Iraq.'

'When no such weapons were found, Shumaker, a 23-year-old chemical officer with the 101st Airborne Division, found himself with no mission.'


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=27&u=/ap/20030923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_the_bag_man_1

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1. Not sad that he had no mission but wondering how and if that has

changed his way of thinking about things in our government. Since I do not know his original thinking, all of this is just supposition on my part.