Two years after the fact we have finally cut the legs out of the argument that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. There are
none.
More below the fold....
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.
It was a campaign of "mass distraction" and "mass hysteria" hyped by the Bush administration that has amassed over 1,300 deaths and thousands more seriously wounded. Over what? What?!?!?!?!?
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.
Hold their feet to the fire! When you get into a debate with a Republican, use this as an example to show how far the Bush administration will go to lie to the American public and the world in general to get their way!!!