Demagogue

From the Washington Post

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.

In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas.

Well, the good news is that we didn't do anything rash - like start a war over it.

Or waste tons of money

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.

Oh, what's a few hundred million dollars? We've got plenty of money - we can afford it.

Man, this could have been really ugly if we had had a more incompetent and reckless president. If we did, we would probably be stuck in some quagmire, having spent more than $200 billion and having lost more than a thousand soldiers in a totally unnecessary war.

Thank God that didn't happen.