Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
"BAGHDAD -- The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms, according to participants."

Bush et al consistently lied to the American public about many things (see Myths of the War on Terrorism and Iraq), and many have long suspected they lied about the WMDs. The USA invaded a country not only pauperised by 12 years of cruel sanctions, it invaded a country with a rinky-dink little defence force (and let's not forget that they had destroyed a lot of their weaponry in fron tof the UNMOVIC inspectors, mostly meeting with Blix's approval). All the while, the White House/Pentagon Axis of Diesel's PR moguls have created a myth of the "brave Americans". Since when are valour and courage exemplified by bullies shooting sitting ducks?

It's hard to believe that more than two-and-a-half village idiots in backwoods America fell for this horseshit, but there ya go ... the power of the mega-media these days.

The story above comes from the Washington Post, which still has just a little cred. Not the Washington Times, which is owned lock, stock and fascist by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his Loony Moonies --- one of the world's longest-standing CIA client states.