Unable to bring forth the caches of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction it had promised the public, the administration engages in a series of shifting maneuvers to change the story or to divert attention from the weapons issue. Doing its best Grima Wormtongue imitation, the administration first claims that the WMD will be found, then that they must have been destroyed or moved to Syria, then that the focus of the search must be on the personnel who created them rather than on the purported weapons themselves. Like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein before them, Saddam’s purported WMD ...   more »