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Charles Krauthammer establishes himself as a True Believer with today's column, finding much to worry about in David Kay's list.

WMD In a Haystack (washingtonpost.com):
"Kay's list is chilling. It includes a secret network of labs and safe houses within the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi foreign intelligence service; bioorganisms kept in scientists' homes, including a vial of live botulinum toxin; and my favorite, 'new research on BW [biological weapons]-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin' -- all 'not declared to the U.N.'

I have been to medical school, and I have never heard of Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever. I don't know one doctor in 100 who has. It is a rare disease, and you can be sure that Hussein was not seeking a cure."

Now it seems a bit funny to me that Krauthammer - who's been to medical school - doesn't understand the difference between botulinum toxin and botulinum bacteria, which was what was actually found in the scientist's home. Not only that, but it was the less virulent strain of the botulinium bacteria, which could probably be found in any yard in the US including at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Add in a round of "I've never heard of it so it must be dangerous"; the Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever certainly sounds awful, but there's nothing in the article to show that. A couple of moments with Google would turn up some information that it's apparently a pretty unpleasant disease, but that the mortality rate is only 15-30%. Ebola, by comparison, is fatal in 80-90% of cases. Plus, we get another rendition of the "move the goalposts" ploy, where evidence of actual weapons is exchanged for evidence of "research".

All in all, a bravura performace by Krauthammer.