Broken Record

It doesn't seem to matter to the Administration that the claims are false; Bush just keeps repeating them anyways. In his weekly radio address yesterday, Bush said:

With the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have removed allies of al Qaeda, cut off sources of terrorist funding and made certain that no terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein's regime.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, we are slowly coming to understand the real nature of Saddam's threat to the world:

Smashing padlocks and deadbolts, the men checked for booby traps as they felt their way by flashlight from room to room. They reached a murky stone passage, smelling of mold. Cement covered its windows. Steel doors, a dull orange, lined the hall.

Interrogation cells? Munitions vaults?

One last bolt snapped. The door creaked open and Deal stepped through. There, in the innermost chamber, he found a cache of vacuum cleaners.