The reports of Scud missles and a chemical weapons plant

Many of the pro-war bloggers have been making a big deal about the reports early in the week of Iraq firing Scud missles, which they had claimed they not longer had.  Today, they're also adding the reports that our soldiers have found a chemical weapons plant. 

Shortly after the report of a possible weapons plant was made public, the Pentagon started backing off from the story a bit, and US Central Command noted that it was premature to call it a weapons plant or to say that we had found any forbidden weapons.  Apparently, we have also since learned that none of the missles fired by Iraq were Scud missles.

The United States and Britain launched their war on Iraq (news - web sites) last week to oust President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) because they said he had stockpiles of banned chemical and biological weapons.

However, Washington and London say their forces have so far not found any evidence of chemical or biological weapons and none of the missiles fired by Iraq have been Scuds, despite initial reports to the contrary.

Scud missiles, along with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, are among the arms that Iraq was barred from possessing by U.N. resolutions after the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites).  [Yahoo News - updated roughly an hour before I made this post]