MMM-KAY?

Making the rounds in the righty wishful-thinking blogs is this report in Townhall by the, uh, highly-credible Bob Novak, saying that Pentagon weapons inspector David Kay has found "substantial evidence of biological weapons in Iraq" and that the Bush administration is planning to present such evidence in September.

For all of the harping by the hawks attempting to discredit Hans Blix and his team this past winter, Kay has some problems of his own. Yesterday, the Pentagon finally came around, falling in line with every other expert in the world in believing that those Iraqi trailers were used for hydrogen weather balloons. But back in June...

Kay said he was aware of a number of theories that the vehicles might have had other uses, "none of which make any logical sense."

Kay saw one of the vehicles on a recent trip to Iraq and received reports on the second.

Kay said most of the alternative uses that have been suggested "didn't pass the laugh test."

"The silliest one," Kay said, was the suggestion that they had been designed to generate hydrogen for meteorological balloons.

Oops.

Unless that "substantial evidence" of bioweapons consists of letters from 1985 reading "Dear Mr Hussein, enjoy this anthrax, please try to use it for *pharmaceutical* purposes (wink, nudge), your pal, GHWB, p.s. rummy says you have a fiiirrrmmm handshake!", I doubt much will come of this. Besides, this is a NoFacts blurb we're talking about.

(cnn link via atrios)