With absolutely no fanfare, W and friends abandoned the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq just before Christmas. The official line is that the violence in the country was the reason for giving up the big search, but the truth is that the army (and hundreds of weapons inspectors) has already looked everywhere and came up empty.
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.
Never mind…