Summing it up...

... it seems to me it's time to add all this up, since there's been so much coming out of late. We now have:

• the administration knew the tubes weren't for nukes, and told the UN otherwise...
• Iraq had no WMDs at the time of invasion...
• Iraq had no apparent ties to international terror, and the administration was relying heavily on evidence concerning one case only; and that evidence, apparently, no longer points that way...
• and the principal source the administration relied upon for intel to the effect that Iraq had bioweapons labs was an unreliable drunk, and the intelligence arm knew this perfectly well.

And here's the funny thing. It's news that official sources like the FBI and the CIA are copping to it. But apart from this, it ain't really news. In the larger sense, we pretty much knew all this.

Okay, except for this conclusion that Iraq actually had no WMDs whatsoever. And that's only a sorta. As in: I admit that surprises me a bit. I always thought they might have a little something socked away somewhere, even if nothing much. The fact that the CIA and company now don't even seem to be considering that as particularly likely or relevant, well, wow.

Anyway. Summing it up now in just one sentence:

The case the administration built for their war was, indeed, as you probably already knew, nothing but a pack of lies.