Boy, where to start with this article in Sunday’s Post?

Not only is it clear, according to the Kay team’s own internal findings, that Iraq had no nuclear program. But we’ve known this pretty much since we first pulled into Baghdad. The only reason it’s not public knowledge is that David Kay has taken it as his task, not to inform the public of the state of Iraq’s pre-war weapons programs, but to carry the water of the White House and obscure the truth as long as possible.

The defenders of the White House now seem intent on lowering the bar to the most comical of levels, arguing that Saddam Hussein had not relinquished the “desire” or the “ambition” to have nuclear weapons. But by this standard (viz, Matthew 5:27-30) probably half the married men in America have cheated on their wives with Pam Anderson or Angelina Jolie. So I’m not quite sure what that proves.

The imminent threat, it seems, was that Saddam was lusting in his heart for nukes, not that he was doing anything to get them.

Along the way, you’ve got lots of pitiful attempts at push-back spin from administration officials who won’t give their name. Here’s one choice example …

An administration official, defending the CIA's prewar analysis, said its message had been widely misunderstood. "The term 'reconstituting' means restoring to a former condition, a process often inferred to be short term," he said. "Based on reporting, however, Saddam clearly viewed it as a long-term process. So did the NIE."

Long-term, indeed ...

(And as I said in the last post, where do you figure all this information's coming from?)