Where are WMD railcars?

In the frenetic rush to war, much was said about Iraq’s alleged ongoing bioterror programs. Many of us sat spellbound and shocked (and for more than just one reason) as Colin Powell stood before the United Nations and itemized the threats facing the world’s population from Saddam Hussain’s possession of WMDs. We’ve heard over and over the now-debunked allegations — at least I thought I had heard all of them. It seems in all the clamor of the drumbeating, I missed hearing one of threats. It must have been a very brief senior moment for me because I don’t remember “rail cars” being repeated again and I was surprised when I found it quoted on the CIA’s web page: Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants, 28 May 2003

    Iraq manufactured mobile trailers and railcars to produce biological agents, which were designed to evade UN weapons inspectors. Agent production reportedly occurred Thursday night through Friday when the UN did not conduct inspections in observance of the Muslim holy day…

So I went back and pulled up Secretary of State Powell’s UN speech of February 5, 2003 and sure enough there it was:

    “Let me take you inside that intelligence file and share with you what we know from eyewitness accounts. We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails. The trucks and train cars are easily moved and are designed to evade detection by inspectors. In a matter of months, they can produce a quantity of biological poison equal to the entire amount that Iraq claimed to have produced in the years prior to the Gulf War. We have diagrammed what our sources reported about these mobile facilities. Here you see both truck and rail car-mounted mobile factories. The description our sources gave us of the technical features required by such facilities are highly detailed and extremely accurate…As shown in this diagram, these factories can be concealed easily, either by moving ordinary-looking trucks and rail cars along Iraq’s thousands of miles of highway or track, or by parking them in a garage or warehouse or somewhere in Iraq’s extensive system of underground tunnels and bunkers…”

There are some who still contend that Saddam Hussain did indeed have all these mobile weapons laboratories and that they may still be hidden away — in fact, the CIA is currently offering rewards for information of the whereabouts of Iraq’s WMD — but how do you hide a rail car? You can’t just drive it off into someone’s garage and close the door. You can’t sneak it over the border into another country in the dead of night even during a sandstorm without someone noticing a train moving across. And with all the satellite and overflight photographs, you can’t bury it out in the desert and then bulldoze up miles of railroad track so they can’t be followed. So, where are the railcars?

Is it just me who believes we need to dredge up all of these “intelligence” sources and their handlers and get some heads rolling? They lied, and thousands died.