Weapons Inspector Ends WMD Search in Iraq

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OK, all you libs, progressives and Democrats...you get one free "I told you so" and that's all.

"WASHINGTON (AP) - Wrapping up his investigation into Saddam Hussein's purported arsenal, the CIA's top weapons hunter in Iraq said his search for weapons of mass destruction "has been exhausted" without finding any.

Nor did Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, find any evidence that such weapons were shipped officially from Iraq to Syria to be hidden before the U.S. invasion, but he couldn't rule out some unofficial transfer of limited WMD-related materials.

He closed his effort with words of caution about potential future threats and careful assessment of this and other unanswered questions.

The Bush administration justified its 2003 invasion of Iraq as necessary to eliminate Hussein's purported stockpile of WMD."

Now unofficially anthing is possible but as it stands now the Bush administration and its subsequent intelligence agencies made a huge error selling their war strictly on the potential threat of WMD's. I will concede this much, based on the above story Iraq was certainly not an "imminent threat". I would venture to guess however, that if we had chosen not to go to war with Iraq then the sanctions would have come down in short order and eventually, someday, Iraq would have posed the sort of problem Bush and co. thought they were posing when our boots landed on the grounds of Baghdad.

For all of the people who thought the war was a good idea based soley on WMD's and then felt cheated and or lied to, I suppose your feelings have been validated. As I've said before, I never thought that was our true intent though I'm disappointed we can't find evidence that material was both dumped in rivers and shipped to Syria. But like I said, that's the official word, I suppose anything is possible and we don't yet what kind of evidence Syria may be sitting on. However, given our luck so far I would have to think I'm holding out for a fools ransom.