Who cares, we kick ass!

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.

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.

Bush has expressed disappointment that no weapons or weapons programs were found, but the White House has been reluctant to call off the hunt, holding out the possibility that weapons were moved out of Iraq before the war or are well hidden somewhere inside the country. But the intelligence official said that possibility is very small.

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Instead of expressing disappointment that my war was unjustified I think I’d be expressing regret for invading a country, being directly responsible for the deaths of around 15,000 people, and spending over $200 billion in tax dollars all because I believed faulty (circumstantial) intelligence presented to me by my CIA director (whom the president appoints) which I then gave to my senior cabinet members so that they could help me sell the case for war to the public on the weekly Sunday news programs.

But I guess that’s just me.