Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq

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As I catch up on the weekend's news,
Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq:

Army Col. Richard McPhee, who will close down the task force next month, said he took seriously U.S. intelligence warnings on the eve of war that Hussein had given "release authority" to subordinates in command of chemical weapons. "We didn't have all these people in [protective] suits" for nothing, he said. But if Iraq thought of using such weapons, "there had to have been something to use. And we haven't found it. . . . Books will be written on that in the intelligence community for a long time."

The Bush administration is cynically manipulative enough (scheduling the Republican convention to "flow into" the 9/11 commemoration?) that I have a hard time believing they just got blinded by their own yes-man intelligence groups.