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Faith-based intelligence comes up short again. Why am I not surprised?

Andrea Mitchell via Josh Marshall reports:

The hunt for weapons of mass destruction, so far, has been a bust. Intelligence officials told NBC News there is no smoking gun. They thought they’d discovered a biological weapons lab, but it wasn’t one.

A massive CIA investigation, led by former U.N. weapons inspector Kay, is turning up only what former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein planned — not what he produced.

“He’s not finding the kinds of things the administration expected to find — large quantities of biological and chemical weapons or evidence that they were destroyed prior to the war,” said David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector.

Meanwhile, Bush keeps lying—and to the troops, who are dying because of his lies.

Despite the failed search, at Fort Stewart, Ga., on Friday, President Bush again raised the specter of Saddam’s weapons: “Because of our military, catastrophic weapons will no longer be in the hands of a reckless dictator.”

The amazing thing is that this story seems to have dropped off the radar. I guess everybody, even the SCLM by this time, knows these guys are lying, and the news has to be new, know what I mean? Sigh....