The Ottawa Citizen is reporting that the Iraqi government has forwarded a letter to the U.N. Secretary stating that it fears that the U.S. government may plant evidence that “Baghdad retains weapons of mass desctuction in an attempt to justify an invasion.”

This is actually a pretty smart move on Saddam’s part and presents the skeptical of us with an interesting delemma. On the one hand I would not put planting evidence as an excuse to start the war past the Bush Administration however on the other I do not trust the Iraqi government (yes, I know, this surprises the right wing but I never said that he was the Middle Eastern golden boy) not to claim that the U.S. planted anything that may be found during the inspection process.

Bush may have shot himself in the foot with the number of unproven and/or flimsy evidence claims he has made over the last few months (see post below) and if weapons of mass destruction are found we may never really know who put them there.