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The gift that keeps on giving
...Consider the irony: while the insurgency was building and organising (and read the whole article for info on that), Donald Rumsfeld and the administration were insisting that there was no insurgency while giving top priority to the search for weapons of mass destruction that they guaranteed did exist.

Talk about wrong-way round.

Whether you believe the WMD fiasco was a case of deception, incompetence or a combinaton of both, it is now clear that the WMD were at the heart of, not just the invasion, but of the failure to secure the country afterwards.

That's a fairly amazing outcome for a bunch of stuff that didn't even exist.