Yesterday the White House announced that it was formally ending its search for weapons of mass destruction. As this article at CBSNews.com reports,

Chief weapon hunter Charles Duelfer is expected to make only small additions to his October report that found Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, says White House spokesman Scott McClennan. The decline in the weapons program was wrought by the first Gulf War and years of international sanctions, the report concluded. . . Duelfer’s findings contradicted nearly all of the assertions by the Bush administration about Iraq’s threat in 2002 and early 2003.

Isn’t that great. Bush uses claims about Iraq having WMDs as the primary justification for starting a preemptive war, plunging our country into more debt, antagonizing the majority of countries and citizens around the world, encouraging more terrorist attacks against U.S.-related interests, and most imporant, sacrificing thousands of U.S. and Iraqi lives in the process.

And now we hear that the White House is basically saying, “Oops, sorry.” I don’t know what’s harder for me to fathom -- the Bush administration’s arrogance, greed, corruption, and utter disregard for facts or that the majority of Americans decided that he should continue being President. Absolutely unbelieveable.