Stockpile...er...No Wait One Weapon of Minor Destruction Found! Maybe...

Whoo Hoo! The U.S. military managed to find a rigged and partially exploded artillery shell that may have contained sarin gas. So that's where Saddam hid all his WMD, in bags abandoned on the roads of Iraq. This from the BBC:

However, a senior coalition source has told the BBC the round does not signal the discovery of weapons of mass destruction or the escalation of insurgent activity.

He said the round dated back to the Iran-Iraq war and coalition officials were not sure whether the fighters even knew what it contained. (click here for the full article)

It'll be interesting to see how the Bush Administration spins this one. It arrives at a very opportune time, what with Rumsfeld under so much pressure to resign because of the U.S. military torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib, and the recent revelation by Hersh in the New Yorker that Rumsfeld and his lackeys secretly encouraged brutal treatment of detainees (click here for the full article).

Of course this kind of story is also a good way to tangentially discourage insurgents from using old ordinance. Oops, am I being cynical about the honesty of the Bush Administration? Shame on me.