Phil Gingrey: “The surprising thing we have found in the biological program is a vast network of laboratories. It is now over two dozen…”

“The surprising thing we have found in the biological program is a vast network of laboratories. It is now over two dozen labs that were not declared to the U.N. even though they had equipment and were clearly conducting activities that were declarable. Now, quite frankly, we are not sure fully what they were doing right now. They had biological and chemical production equipment in them. Most of them are relatively small by historic Iraqi standards. They are mostly in houses and residential areas. Some are in business establishments. One was in a hospital. These are facilities that at the minimum carried out research and development and kept the scientific skill level. When you think about the fact that it took us months and months to find Saddam in the country, a country the size of California, buried in a six-by-three-foot hole south of Tikrit, and probably would not have found him without accurate, absolutely, the most accurate human intelligence, I do not think it is surprising that we are having difficulty finding these weapons of mass destruction. There are any number of things that he could have done with them, from shipping them out of the country, to destroying them, to burying them, to putting them in very small vials. It does not take a footlocker to store some of these weapons of mass destruction. They are easily hidden. So we need to keep looking, absolutely.”