All Quiet on the Central Front

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What's the next move, Mr. Rove? The armies of darkness await your next spin cycle. The old spin is losing momentum.

Poor Condi Rice is still spinning weapons of mass destruction, for pity's sake. Just two days ago she told Wolf Blitzer

...there was no doubt in the minds of three administrations, the United Nations weapons inspectors, multiple intelligence services around the world that Saddam Hussein had had and probably still possessed and had used weapons of mass destruction, that he was actively pursuing weapons of mass destruction. That's why he was under U.N. sanctions for 12 years, that's why the world passed resolution after resolution after resolution telling him to disarm. There was no question going in that the overwhelming bulk of evidence and intelligence pointed to active weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. (CNN Late Edition 9/7/03)

Last March, when "President" Bush decided he couldn't wait another second to start a war, the UN weapons inspectors were not finding weapons of mass destruction and were not certain there were any. And the overwhelming bulk of evidence and intelligence available to Ms. Rice and her boss last March did not point to "active" weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

There are varieties of potato that are sharper interviewers than Mr. Blitzer, and he didn't challenge Condi's statements. But you'd better get her some new material fast. One of these days someone's going to remember what it is to be a journalist and challenge what she says.

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