This is an interesting pre-war Iraqi document, if the translation is accurate:

He mentioned that a meeting in Beijing in the beginning of this month was held between the Prime minister of China and the German Chancellor Schroeder in the occasion of the opening project for the fast train and the latter was asked about the information that was obtained by the Chinese intelligence and it says that Iraq has moved his mass of destruction weapon to Syria and the German Chancellor told him that the German intelligence did indicate this. And after two days the US state secretary went to Damascus to check on this with the Syrian government that in turn denied this news...

Well, the fact that they denied it provides no information as to whether or not it's true.

[Update at 11:20 AM EST]

Colonel Gordon Cucullu writes about the tipping point of truth:

Reams of documents – ultimately numbering in the millions of pages by the time CDs, hard drives, and computer memories are downloaded and printed – are slowly beginning to be translated and released for analysis. These documents – though only 2% or so are translated and available – substantiate without doubt the following allegations: Saddam Hussein and bin Laden, the Baathist regime and al Qaeda had extensive, wide reaching ties. Saddam was, at a minimum, a supporter of the 911 attacks if not a sponsor of them. Saddam’s intelligence services trained more than 8,000 al Qaeda terrorists, primarily from Somalia and Sudan, at camps such as Salman Pak and Ansar al-Islam within Iraq. And Saddam helped finance al Qaeda and similar terrorist groups.

Further, the documents substantiate a broad, on-going program Iraq had to develop nuclear weapons. Indeed, Saddam had instructed his minions to begin preparing to re-energize the program after UN sanctions were lifted, a hope he had reinforced by French, Russian, and German diplomats, and traitors like British Parliamentarian George Galloway, all of whom convinced him that delay and obfuscation of the UN would get him off the hook.

We also know, thanks to the work of former Iraqi Air Force General Georges Sada, that Saddam had several civilian aircraft – one Boeing 747 and a “group” of 727s - stripped of passenger equipment and converted into cargo planes. The aircraft flew 56 sorties between Iraq and Syria, delivering drums of the chemical weapon Sarin along with other chemical and biological weapons. The deal with concocted on Saddam’s orders by “Chemical Ali” his general in charge of special weapons, and Bashar Assad’s cousin, General Abu Ali. It was a rare occasion for cooperation between the rival Baathist states, but as Sada notes, “there was complete agreement between them.”

In addition to the air sorties an uncounted amount of WMD were transported to Syria by commercial trucks – familiar 18-wheelers – and other civilian vehicles, including ambulances. “Saddam was convinced,” according to Sada, “that commercial trucks could pass right through security checkpoints…and they did.” American CIA overhead assets – spy satellites – were on the lookout for military trucks and ignored “routine” commercial traffic.

I don't know if the available evidence is as strong as he claims, but I haven't seen it all, and I certainly won't be surprised if it is. The only thing that I find surprising is how long it took the administration to release it.

I think this stuff wasn't released to protect whatever minimal relationship we still have with Russia. I don't know if that was a good choice or not but tend to think it was not.

I would have made everything public as quickly as reasonably possible and let the chips fall.

Well, with only 2% of the documents translated so far, I'm not TOO surprised it's not being released very quickly, but what news station other than Fox would run the story?

There's a joke in here somewhere, I think it's something along the lines of "and when they finally got done translating, the last document they found translated to 'Oh, and all those documents you found? We were just kidding.'"

Mr. Breens' silliness aside, I believe there is a lot in these documents we will never know simply because the MSM doesn't want us too; as some facts, if revealed, would contradict the MSMs' agenda. Hopefully we won’t have to rely only on the MSM to get the word out.

As well as things that will be kept from the public purposely by the government who may not want some things to come out that would make France, Germany and others look extremely bad.

I believe there is a lot in these documents we will never know simply because the MSM doesn't want us too; as some facts, if revealed, would contradict the MSMs' agenda. Hopefully we won’t have to rely only on the MSM to get the word out.

An official DoD website wouldn't need the MSM to accomplish publication of whatever is there.

The MSM can hardly keep Rumsfeld quiet if he choose to release the information.

What good does it do if DOD releases information if the MSM ignores it? Some of us will hear about it, but the vast majority of Americans will go on brainwashed by what the MSM reports.

What good does it do if DOD releases information if the MSM ignores it? Some of us will hear about it, but the vast majority of Americans will go on brainwashed by what the MSM reports.

What about Fox News? There are mainstream outlets that would report this information.

My take is that the reason we don't hear anything is because Saddam Hussein truly did take apart his WMD program. Maybe he did move what was left to Syria. That is his well-known M.O. for preserving his more valuable (and mobile) military equipment in time of war. For example, he move much of his air force out in both the war with Iran and the Persian Gulf war.

For me the bigger issue is what would have happened if we didn't go this route. Eventually the sanctions would have eased (IMHO good chance it would have happened by now), and then the world would have lost the only control it had on Hussein's well-known aggression. Aggression that has killed more than a million people.

Once sanctions end and the weapon inspectors go home, then the old programs start up again. Maybe they'd be behind by a decade or two, but he had the knowledge in place. And the evidence is that once attention shifted away he'd be back to his old tricks.