bush lies, nobody cares

best... president... ever...

The U.S. force that scoured Iraq for weapons of mass destruction -- cited by President Bush as justification for war -- has abandoned its long and fruitless hunt, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

The 1,700-strong Iraq Survey Group, responsible for the hunt, last month wrapped up physical searches for weapons of mass destruction, and it will now gather information to help U.S. forces in Iraq win a bloody guerrilla war, officials said.

awesome, nothing like a good bloody guerrilla war.

"I felt like we would find weapons of mass destruction ... like many -- many here in the United States, many around the world," Bush told ABC's Barbara Walters, according to excerpts from an interview airing on Friday.

Bush said "we need to find out what went wrong in the intelligence gathering," and that the invasion was "absolutely" worth it even if there were no weapons of mass destruction.

meanwhile, back in iraq:

Car bombs rock Mosul, White House says Iraqi elections far from perfect

The northern metropolis of 1.5 million people has become a battle terrain for insurgents and Americans, with the January 30 polls seen as a referendum on who truly controls the city.

sometimes i forget how ludicrous this situation really is. then i remember.