Grassley says finding chemicals not important in action against Iraq

Several large caches of chemicals found by U.S. troops in Iraq are believed to be weapons, but nothing has been confirmed yet. Drums of suspected nerve gas discovered near Baghdad turned out to be pesticide. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says even if chemical weapons -aren’t- found in Iraq, the U.S. won’t lose face in the world view. Grassley says “we’ve found other weapons that he had that violated U-N agreements so there’s no reason to think that he doesn’t have these other weapons of mass destruction.” Some of the “scud” missiles fired at U.S. troops during the first days of the war were among weapons Saddam Hussein was supposed to have destroyed. Monday’s “bunker buster” attack on a building where the Iraqi president and at least one of his sons were believed to be was a success in demolishing the structure, but it’s unknown if Saddam was killed. Grassley says if Saddam is taken out, the war’s end will be close at hand. Grassley says “there’s a great deal of loyalty to (Saddam), that when that personality is gone the loyalty that held the Baath Party together would go with it.”Grassley says the removal of Saddam will “leave a vacuum for the creation of a new political structure, and that’s where the leadership of the United States is going to be very, very important, slowly and gradually moving other political leaders into place, those from outside the country who have sought refuge in a democracy coming back to run their country.”