Bush Administration on Iraq WMD: "We were just kidding!"

Well, what a surprise:

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.

Rumsfeld, September 18, 2002, testimony before the House Armed Services Committee:

Saddam "has amassed large clandestine stocks of biological weapons... including anthrax and botulism toxin and possibly smallpox. His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas."

Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003, on Meet the Press:

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."

Rumsfeld on his reappointment as Defense Secretary:

"I feel fortunate at this point in my life to feel I can contribute to working on these important problems."

1,353 young American men and women are dead in the war that George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of the neocon posse said was necessary because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.



What sayeth thou now, George? Don?



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