How much taxpayer money has been wasted on yet another study that tells us what we already knew? Kerry and Edwards are correct that Bush-Cheney can not see what the American public can see. No matter how hard Bush-Cheney push their distortions, there were no WMDs and the war was based on lies. Something tells me that they won't accept this either and will keep telling the same old lies and make the same old connections. These guys just keep pushing the woulda-coulda-shoulda stories but thankfully the American public is waking up to the repeated lies.
The government's most definitive account of Iraq's arms programs, to be released today, will show that Saddam Hussein posed a diminishing threat at the time the United States invaded and did not possess, or have concrete plans to develop, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), vice chairman of the House intelligence committee, said she had not read Duelfer's report but has been told that it thoroughly undercuts the administration's assertions that Iraq posed a serious threat.
"Intentions do not constitute a growing danger," Harman said. "It's hardly mushroom clouds, hardly stockpiles," she added, a reference to administration rhetoric used in the run-up to the war.
Another government official who was briefed on the report said that many U.S. officials had thought Hussein would "get down to business" in developing weapons when the U.N. inspectors left. "There's no evidence of that," the official said.
