Unable to bring forth the caches of Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction it had promised the public, the administration engages in a series
of shifting maneuvers to change the story or to divert attention from the
weapons issue. Doing its best Grima Wormtongue imitation, the administration
first claims that the WMD will be found, then that they must have been
destroyed or moved to Syria, then that the focus of the
search must be on the personnel who created them rather than on the purported
weapons themselves. Like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein before them,
Saddam