WEAPONS OF MASS BLAH

Atrios sums it up rather perfectly:

The only evidence we need to know that the administration is simply in CYA mode is the fact they don't seem very concerned about the "missing" WMD. If they really believed they existed, the hunt for them wouldn't be motivated by a desire to justify the war, it would be motivated by the very legitimate desire to make sure the deadly weapons were not in the hands of evil-doers. Since the administration isn't sounding the alarm along these lines, it's obvious they're unconcerned. They just want to find some scrap of something - a la the ridiculous mobile "labs" - to pacify the media and dupe the public.

Exactly! The debate, the national dialog has had very little to do with worry about missing WMD, but rather about after-the-fact justification for the war. Atrios brings up the "mobile weapons lab"; note that it's discovery was followed by hoots on the pro-war right of "see? this is the smoking gun!", and not any sort of worry about how more weapons may yet be out there (jeez, if it was really for that purpose and it was empty, wouldn't you expect FEAR from the right about where those weapons went, rather than back-patting about finding the "lab"? sigh.)

If there was a real danger from actual WMD that we have yet to find, then this all seems pretty fucking cynical on the part of the administration, media, etc.