That's All, Folks

The long and futile hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has finally come to an end.

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. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley.

And so it ends, not with a bang (literally), but with a whimper. Of course the search has for all intents and purposes been over for awhile. I don't think even this administration has held out hope that WMDs would turn up for perhaps the last year or so, and the interim report in September (which will stand as the final report) only confirmed that fact.

Of course, it changes nothing. Despite the complete erosion of the primary reason for the invasion (the only compelling reason in fact), the administration learns no lesson from the experience, the insurgency continues unabated, and liberals and conservatives denounce each other while both sides debate how on Earth we're going to get out of this mess.