It's beginning to appear more and more as if the Bush Administration were rather creative with the data they presented concerning Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction".

CIA to review Iraq intelligence for bias, accuracy; House lawmakers question whether data was manipulated to justify war

The CIA review, coupled with the letter sent to Tenet by the House intelligence panel, follows criticism that the Defense Department, particularly a new Pentagon intelligence office, and other parts of the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to make the case for war in Iraq.

- Washington Post via SF Gate-

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Blix suspects there are no weapons of mass destruction

Dr Blix, who retires next month, has previously condemned as "shaky" the evidence presented by British and American intelligence before the war, and said that it was "conspicuous" that they had failed to make significant discoveries after the war.

But in yesterday's interview, he went further. He said: "The main justification for the war was weapons of mass destruction, and it may turn out that in this respect the war was not justified."

-Guardian-

If there is such a thing as a just war, Bush's Iraq adventure was not it. The invoking of weapons of mass destruction as a justification for the invasion of Iraq was clearly a tactic employed to frighten and deceive. I'm sure this space has seen me denouncing the flimsily manufactured "evidence" for these weapons before. I am not even the tiniest bit surprised that these frightening weapons of mass destruction have yet to be unearthed. What surprises me is that no "evidence" of this dissipating justification for war has been planted in the Iraqi sand by the US or it's agents. Yet.

Meanwhile, as the story of Saddam's arsenal unravels, the Bush administration mounts a stunning campaign of military hypocrisy.

House approves GOP plan for nukes

The House vote followed Senate approval late Tuesday for a nuclear bunker buster dubbed the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, and for loosening a 1993 ban on development of low-yield nuclear weapons.

While the provisions won't be signed into law for weeks, the House and Senate votes within two days granted the Bush administration the most aggressive change in U.S. nuclear policy since the Cold War.

-Tri-Valley Herald-

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Tiny nukes: big problem- Itsy bitsy Armageddons

The US Senate has bowed to the Dr. Strangelove dream of Donald Rumsfeld, and lifted a ten-year-old ban on research and development of smaller battlefield nuclear weapons. The action paves the way for the creation of a whole new range of numerous small, "usable" nuclear weapons.

-Greenpeace-

The sheer gall of Bush and his gang never ceases to amaze me. Invade a sovereign nation on the pretense that they possess weapons dangerous to the world and then propose the development of nuclear weapons. But perhaps there is no hypocrisy there, really. Saddam, after all, might have had weapons of mass destruction, Bush is rallying for weapons of limited destruction. Tiny little warheads much like his own.

Little Guns

Tiny people, with little guns
Little armies march, to little drums
What do they want?
What do they want?

Tiny soldiers, with little guns
Little tanks, no bigger than your thumb
They want you

Little people, with tiny brains
Little bullets flowing, in their veins
What do they want?
What do they want?

Tiny people with little guns
Little armies march, to little drums
They want you, you
You, you, you, you

Little airplanes, with tiny bombs
Little squadrons, dropping thimbles of Napalm
They want you

What do they want?
What do they want?

Tiny people, with little guns
Little armies march, to little drums
You, you
You, you, you, you

Tiny people, little guns
Tiny people, little guns
Tiny people, little guns

-Oingo Boingo-