Just Another Flop

From the Associated Press, courtesy the Evansville Courier & Press, October 8:

Yet Bush and Cheney acknowledged more definitively than before that Saddam did not have the banned weapons that both men had asserted he did - and had cited as the major justification before attacking Iraq in March 2003.

Bush recently has left the question open. For example, when asked in June whether he thought such weapons had existed in Iraq, Bush said he would "wait until Charlie (Duelfer) gets back with the final report."

In July, Bush said, "We have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction," a sentence construction that kept alive the possibility the weapons might yet be discovered.

On Thursday, the president used the clearest language to date nailing the question shut:

"Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there," Bush said. His words placed the blame on U.S. intelligence agencies.

But that's okay, because we went to war over corruption in the Oil-For-Food program. What about going to war over corruption in Halliburton? Carlyle? Adeplhia? Enron? I'd even settle for a slap on the wrise, sans the Shock-N-Awe.

[Edit] Need proof this is going on? Check out this article in The Nation. Not exactly the first place to look for investigative journalism these days, but where is? [Added 13 October]