If one believes everything Colin Powell said to the Security Council yesterday, one's first responseought to be that there's no reason to fight a war, since U.S. surveillance capabilities are so awesome thatIraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) can easily be found. And one's first question should be why has theUnited States for over two months withheld this apparently so damaging evidence from those weapons inspectors,who could have verified conjectures and destroyed WMD stocks and production facilities.