Shocker: No WMDs in Iraq.

Wasn't this official months ago? Is ANYbody actually being held responsible for this?

The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein.

We want to give you the opportunity to show firsthand what it is like to live and work in Iraq.

Four months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring.

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials asserted before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, had chemical and biological weapons, and maintained links to al Qaeda affiliates to whom it might give such weapons to use against the United States.

The REALLY disgusting thing is that Bush CLAIMED we went in to find weapons, and yet they left weapons sites unguarded. There WERE some weapons - conventional ones - at weapons sites in Iraq that we had had under surveillance for MONTHS - and they aren't there now. They were stolen. They were stolen by people who are now shooting at us with them. Because we thought guarding the oil fields was more important than guarding the weapons, and , because of Rumsfeld's insistence on going to war on the cheap, we didn't have enough troops to guard BOTH.

Every suspected site within Iraq has been fully searched, or stripped bare by insurgents and thieves, according to several people involved in the weapons hunt.

Satellite photos show that entire facilities have been dismantled, possibly by scrap dealers who sold off parts and equipment to buyers around the world.

And our Republican Congress has decided that the actual details of how the public's money has been spent is none of the public's business:

Congress allotted hundreds of millions of dollars for the weapons hunt, and there has been no public accounting of the money. A spokesman for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency said the entire budget and the expenditures would remain classified.

It is unbelievable - and it doesn't say good things about this country - that such total and utter incompetence and arrogance is going unpunished.