Will Bush Make More Jokes About This?

More evidence has emerged to demonstrate that WMD was a figment of the Bush imagination:

The chief US weapons inspector in Iraq has concluded Saddam Hussein had less ability to develop weapons of mass destruction last year than he did in 1998 when United Nations weapons inspectors left.

Well, it's nice to see the truth finally emerge, especially after last night's serving of lies with a side order of gravitas.

And a CIA report throws more egg on Team Bush's face:

A reassessment by the Central Intelligence Agency has cast doubt on a central piece of evidence used by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq to draw links between Saddam Hussein's government and Al Qaeda's terrorist network, government officials said Tuesday.

It turns out that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi wasn't being sheltered by Hussein. Supposedly he was in Baghdad sometime in 2002--which means he was one of six million people living there at the time--and no, even a vicious scumbag like Saddam can't keep track of everyone. The report also indicates Zarqawi was "in contact" with Islamic fundamentalists in "Northern Iraq," i.e., Iraqi Kurdistan, where the UNITED STATES had a presence. So--why didn't Bush go after him then?

But I digress--the point here is that yet another team of investigators has shown that Hussein, far from being the ultimate bogeyman, was in fact a doddering old wretched cretin living on borrowed time and his legacy of violence. But instead of letting him rot on the vine, Bush thought a war would be the perfect way to establish his credentials in time for his re-selection. As for the thousand plus US soldiers who've been killed--well, the fact that Bush refuses to attend ANY of their funerals speaks volumes.

It also speaks volumes when you consider that WMD became a funny joke for Bush last spring.