FORTY FIVE MINUTES: There's a hell of a lot of row still blowing about over the UK government's statement that Saddam could have weapons flying within the length of a single side of a typical cassette. CNN now suggest that, you know, he could have had a nuke built in just three years. This is based on the discovery of some gas centrifuges that were buried twelve years ago. Now, we're not archaeology experts - although we've seen a couple of those Tony Robinson shows this week - but would any object needed for something as delicate as nuclear physics work after a decade in the ground?

 
TWENTY QUESTIONS: The Globe And Mail Iraq Now FAQ.

 
WHERE DID THE WEAPONS GO? PART 64: Bush now suggests that the Weapons of Mass Destruction have been looted. It's unclear if this was meant to have happened before or after - as Rumsfeld apparently believes - the weapons were destroyed; it's also unclear why these weapon thieves would have been so diligent as to clean up every last trace of the laboratories they were looting, every single scrap of background contamination, every piece of equipment. We hope, though, they stand as a lesson to burglars the world over - if you're going to do a crime, clean up after you to a forensic degree.

Oh... you don't think Bush could be lying, do you?

But if he isn't: wasn't the whole point of the Iraqi invasion to stop weapons falling into the hands of terrorists? So, if we trust Bush here, then what he's admitting is that his policy has been a dangerous and spectacular fuck-up.