CalPundit has started to assemble a list of the cheap excuses being made to excuse the fact that, whoops, Saddam didnt ahve any WMD's after all! Heres what he has so far:
Lots of people: Dammit, it wasn't about WMD, it was about liberation.
Ariel Sharon and Richard Perle (among others): Saddam surreptitiously moved the WMD to Syria before the war.
Jim Lacey: Saddam's underlings never built any WMD, but they hid this from Saddam out of fear.
Kenneth Adelman: Saddam didn't have any WMD but launched a massive disinformation campaign to convince everyone that he did.
Donald Rumsfeld: Saddam destroyed all his WMD before the war.
let me add a few more:
Michael Schrage in the Washington post said it was because saddam was "ambigouos" about whether or not he had them. And that was enough to invade.
Kathleen Parker in the Chicago Tribune says saddam could have had them estroyed in the desert and then killed hte troops to cover up the crime (no kidding, she really said this)
My favorite is Peter rooks from the Heritage Foundation who said that Saddam was using France and Germany as "dupes" to stall the US so he could destroy them and avoid being indicted by the U.N.
That one gets points for sheer balls.
Coming up next. Top ten excuses Hitler used to invade Austria….