Number One: The Bush administration didn't just suspect Iraq had such weapons at the ready. They said they knew. There were "facts, not assertions." "Of this,"there can be no doubt." The evidence was "solid." The WMD were around Tikrit, Rumsfeld said. The Brits "have learned, uh, that Iraq had got yellow cake uranium from Niger." All of that certainty was calculated horse manure.

Number Two: UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors were sent precisely, precisely, to verify the existence or the absence of those WMDs.

The inspectors were finding nothing and saying so... to the embarrassment of the arrogant neo-cons, their puppet Pinocchio Flight Jacket (aka President of the United States), and pathetic lapdogs like Poodle Pat Roberts (aka current Republican Senator from Kansas).

Number Three. One would have to be naive indeed to think that, if U.S. intelligence was that, uh, solid, U.S. intelligence agencies would not have tipped off the inspectors where to look.

Number Four. The administration's reaction to the emerging truth? Smear Scott Ritter. Smear Chief Inspector Hans Blix and IAEA's Mohamed ElBaradei for telling the truth. Smear Joe Wilson and his CIA covert agent wife. And bust butts to start an unnecessary, illegal, and immoral war and occupation.

Conclusion. For this and other reasons now detailed by Dennis Kucinich, no U.S. President and Vice-President have so richly deserved impeachment than George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.

In fact, bills of impeachment, one for Bush and one for Cheney, are now in the House Judiciary Committee, waiting for something called courage from Americans citizens, including the spineless Democratic leadership, to demand action from those in Congress upon whom we have placed the responsibility to honor and preserve a democratic republic. Roberts we should simply return to the pound.

Footnote. According Hans Blix, UN inspections were costing some $100 million a year, absolutely none of which was paid for by U.S. taxpayers and would have taken less than a year to complete. Last I looked on (June 17) the war and occupation had cost $528,004,239,702 and growing (see counter for latest cost totals) -- not including a million and a half mangled human beings and decomposing corpses.