When Le Monde Teaches You More About WMD Than America's MSM, Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong…

Although it is written by Eric Leser (who invariably ends his piece with a broadside on America), the Le Monde article that accompanies Serguei's cartoon on the end of the search for WMD actually gives more "mitigating circumstances" and all-inclusive information than I have read in the American mainstream media…

The decision to bring the searches to a halt is linked to the risks run in Iraq and to the absence of any new information on potential non conventional arsenals. On December 10, 2004, [Charles] Duelfer was attacked near Bagdad during a routine mission, and two bodyguards were killed.

… Every suspect site in Iraq was the object of thorough searches. Most of them had already been pillaged and emptied of all their equipment. …

[What Saddam Hussein was hiding for the most part] was the technical means to allow him to resume the production of weapons of mass destruction after the lifting of the UN's sanctions. …

In the meantime, RV directs us to NewsMax (No WMDs? Tons of Uranium, Sarin Gas, Buried MiGs):

[Instead of throwing in the towel,] Bush would do better to explain to the American people just what U.S. forces did find in their search for banned weapons in Iraq — starting with, for instance, the 1.8 tons of partially enriched uranium Saddam had s[t]ocked away.

…And if Bush needs more ammunition to refute [top House Dem Nancy] Pelosi, he could cite the discovery of Sarin gas-filled artillery shells.

…And if the White House wants some dramatic imagery to show how easy it was for Saddam to hide banned weapons, how about those photos of the 30 Iraqi jet fighters that weapons searchers found buried in the sand near Baghdad.

…No weapons of mass destruction? President Bush needs to spend more time examining the evidence and less time working through his mea culpas with Barbara Walters.