Big Surprise

Last week, President Bush boldly declared to the world that "we have found the weapons of mass destruction", and pointed at two trailers found in Northern Iraq that were tentatively identified as mobile biological weapons laboratories. Now trailers are not weapons, and no traces of weapons were found inside the trailers, but did the President still have a point?

Nope.

American and British intelligence analysts with direct access to the evidence are disputing claims that the mysterious trailers found in Iraq were for making deadly germs. In interviews over the last week, they said the mobile units were more likely intended for other purposes and charged that the evaluation process had been damaged by a rush to judgment.

OK then. Number of WMD found: zero. Number of times the Bush administration has distorted intelligence to support its political ambitions: can't count that high.