"it was like building sand castles"

I know that by now even the partisans are starting to hush up about the WMD claims that we held against Iraq as it becomes more and more evident that no evidence is to be found, but the picture is still coming into clearer focus just how wrong we were:

Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program, and in fact lied to Saddam Hussein about how much progress they were making before U.S.-led attacks shut the operation down for good in 1991, Iraqi physicists say.

Before that first Gulf War, the chief of the weapons program resorted to "blatant exaggeration" in telling Iraq's president how much bomb material was being produced, scientist Imad Khadduri writes in a new book.

Other leading physicists, in Baghdad interviews, said the hope for an Iraqi atomic bomb was never realistic. "It was all like building sand castles," said Abdel Mehdi Talib, Baghdad University's dean of sciences.

--The good ol' Billings Gazette (my only source of news for three long months while in Yellowstone)

We will never, of course, hear Mr. Bush acknowledge this news...just as we will never see him attend a soldier's funeral after having died "defending" us against those things that this news suggests never exists. But it is out there. People aren't really paying attention, but it's out there. *sigh* I'm done bashing Bush, I'm done hating this administration. It's beyond all of that now. Any more of that will just ruin a sense of patriotism that has been welling inside me as of late...I just wish I had something positive to have that patriotism develop into national pride.