C’mon, general, this is getting silly.
Asked if he has any regrets about the statements he made before the war that he was confident that weapons of mass destruction would be found, [Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] said, “It’s not over yet,” indicating he thinks it is possible that stockpiles still might be found.
All indications are that Myers wasn’t kidding. Maybe, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, someone might be kind enough to make a copy of the Duelfer report available to him.
The government’s most definitive account of Iraq’s arms programs, to be released today, will show that Saddam Hussein posed a diminishing threat at the time the United States invaded and did not possess, or have concrete plans to develop, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The officials said that the 1,000-page report by Charles A. Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, concluded that Hussein had the desire but not the means to produce unconventional weapons that could threaten his neighbors or the West.
Gen. Myers was wrong before and he’s wrong now. Of all the possible justifications for failure, “it’s not over yet” has to rank up there with “my dog ate the WMD.”