No WMD in Iraq

It's official - the Bush administration has officially ended the hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The weapons the U.S. military failed to find are the same as those U.N. weapons inspectors insisted weren't there in the first place. Others - Bush supporters mostly - claim that these weapons probably were there, but were shipped off to Syria and other places while the U.S. was preparing to invade.

So now we are embroiled in a war that we ostensibly entered in order to prevent Saddam Hussein from using his WMD against the US and its allies. Saddam is gone and no one knows where the WMD went. No matter what, the world is a far more dangerous place. Not only is the U.S. creating new enemies every day with what's happening in Iraq, but we also may have spurred Saddam to send his WMD to Syria or elsewhere, in which case we've succeeded in spurring the proliferation of these weapons to terrorists rather than having them stay in Iraq where we might have had some chance of keeping an eye on them. My guess is there were never any WMDs and it was a deliberate fabrication. How do we know this? We haven't seen any chemical or bio weapons being used in terrorist attacks.

At this point, the Bush administration has completely changed its rationale for the war to something more along the lines of - well, we got rid of a terrible dictator and are bringing freedom to Iraq. Iraqi people can't work, have had their homes destroyed, fear going out in public because of the violence and are afraid to vote for that reason, have their homeland occupied by a foreign army and are staring down the barrel of a major civil war. Is this freedom?

I have only one more question to ask about the sham the United States is becoming, or has become. A president was impeached for lying about a mostly harmless blow job. What's the punishment for lying in order to start a pointless war?