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41. It was agonizingly stupid.

First that it came from a source called "Curveball" who was so named because he was found to be aggressively opportunistic and fanciful.

Second is that Hussein's paranoia would never have allowed valuable weapons to wonder around wi here they could be turned against him.

Third the last place Iraqi's would have placed labs is outside in the line of sight with American satellites.

Fourth no one would have agreed to have a mobile sight making toxic gas wandering around on the bumpy roads of Baghdad.

Fifth and this really is the killer, the supposed reason that they were mobile is that they could be moved around to avoid the inspectors. What no one apparently pointed out is that the production mechanism is a relatively small part of the manufacturing train. There would still be large amounts of raw material and finished product sitting around, much larger in volume than the production mechanism, that would be found by the rigorous inspection regime.