Ceci n'est pas une WMD

CBS News concludes a confused mishmash of a story on the maybe-maybe-not forthcoming David Kay report with this:

Former weapons inspectors now say, five months after the U.S. invasion, that what the U.S. alleged were “unaccountable” stockpiles may have been no more than paperwork glitches left behind when Iraq destroyed banned chemical and biological weapons years ago.

(My emphasis)

“Paperwork glitches.” Too bad the same can’t be said of the roster of thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of Americans and Brits who died in bloody agony because George W. Bush couldn’t tell the difference between the words “mustard gas shell” in a ledger and an actual mustard gas shell. The names in that list aren’t just words on paper. They are lives lost and families destroyed. For a lie. For “paperwork glitches.” For nothing.

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