In the absence of any real data...

That groovy cartoonist Tom Tomorrow posted this on his blog and I can't resist passing this along.

Snip below. It's from Tuesday.


Senior intelligence officials acknowledged today that the government had not compiled an updated, cross-agency assessment of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons capacities, although the Bush administration is pressing for a quick statement of support for military action against Saddam Hussein.

Intelligence officials, responding to repeated complaints from Senate Democrats, said today that they were working on the authoritative document. The last such thorough assessment on Iraq's clandestine weapons was produced about two years ago, Senate and administration officials said today.


Go read Bush's speech to the U.N. today and then read the above article and then tell me why Team Bush is so hot and heavy to hit Iraq. You can't have it both ways: You can't say Saddam has weapons of mass destruction and then have your intelligence agencies say they don't know what WMD Iraq has.

And keep in mind, this is all on the heels of former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter getting roasted by CNN for daring to suggest that Iraq isn't that big of a threat. I mean, it's not like Ritter spent time in Iraq looking for WMD or anything.

Oh, wait.

Sheesh. I've really fallen off my "I'm not going to write about Bush" wagon.