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I have long felt that Robin Cook’s position on Iraq’s WMDs was the most sensible of any of the high-level government officials who have expressed opinions about Iraq. His resignation speech was very compelling. Although I cannot know for certain, I suspect that Cook was right when he said that Iraq had no WMDs “in the commonly understood sense.” (The Bush administration’s failure to find anything significantly threatening in the weeks since the hostilities have ceased seems to support this view.)

Cook now returns with ”Why Rumsfeld Is Wrong,” a blistering look at why just about everything the Bush administration has asserted about Iraq is just wrong. (Link via Atrios.) An excerpt:

Isn’t it possible that Saddam Hussein ordered their destruction, as U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has suggested?

No. I don’t think it’s even remotely possible. I just cannot follow the Rumsfeld logic; that watching CNN and seeing the American build-up Saddam said to his generals, “It’s obvious that the U.S. is going to invade; we had better destroy our biggest weapons, so that when I am toppled there might be some very difficult questions for Donald Rumsfeld to answer.”