Search for WMD ended last month

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Posted 09:59 AM
From alternet.org
On Dec. 3, Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, indicated that he's among the few Americans left who believed maybe, just maybe, there are unfound weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Asked if he has any regrets about the statements he made before the war that he was confident that weapons of mass destruction would be found, Myers said, "It's not over yet," indicating he thinks it is possible that stockpiles still might be found.
As it turns out, within a couple of weeks of Myers' fairly silly remark, it really was over.

The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley.
In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas.

Four months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring.

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials asserted before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, had chemical and biological weapons, and maintained links to al Qaeda affiliates to whom it might give such weapons to use against the United States.


All of these assertions, we now know, were wrong. With this in mind, I'm anxious to see all the conservatives who were doing victory laps this week over the conclusion of CBS's "memogate" announce their support for the White House following in the network's footsteps.

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Accountability is accountability, right? Bush will no doubt appoint an independent investigatory panel to determine how the administration got the story completely wrong, will fire those responsible, and will take concrete steps to see that such a mistake is never repeated.

This won't happen, of course. Conservatives have the highest standards for non-Fox-related news agencies, but not their presidents.