Libby is bringing (failure to find) WMD to the fore again in his defense.

[Jackpine Radical]

This brings up an old question of mine, namely, what went wrong with the WMD planting operation anyway?

I take it as a given that the Bushies knew Saddam had no operational WMD, or they would never have gone in the way they did, in their "long march" up from Basra, thereby risking many thousands of casualties to chemical & possibly bio weapons. Not that I imagine them to have the slightest compassion for the poor troops, but it would have been really terrible PR to lose your whole army before you even get to Baghdad.



Therefore they must have had plans to plant stuff. And there were some stories on the fringe about WMD planting teams getting caught or otherwise having their plans go awry.

But still, it seems that a bunch of psychopaths like these guys could have found some way to fortify the WMD cover story without grasping at aluminum tubes, satellite pictures of God-knows-what and old trailers. If it had been me, I would have just announced that we found some stuff and we aren't gonna show it to anyone because it's super-double-top-secret classified. I mean, shit, what would prevent them from making up stories from whole cloth and who would be the wiser?