When you find yourself stuck in a hole, whatever else you do, start digging faster with a bigger shovel. (NOT)
What's worse, despite the international prestige, money, and lives that have been wasted in this endeavour, Bush refuses to admit defeat.
The U.S-led team hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has not found any stockpiles of biological or chemical weapons, but will keep searching the country, CIA adviser David Kay said on Thursday.
The cash infusion is being sought even though the group has gotten off to what experts and military officials said had been a rocky start.
Though a larger group than the 75th Exploitation Task Force, the military weapons hunting group that preceded it, the Iraq Survey group includes many members drawn from reserve units.
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The group has also concentrated on installing an unnecessarily elaborate infrastructure to support its operations, said several military officials who complained there was a disparity between the resources allotted to the two programs.
While the Exploitation Task Force worked out of an abandoned palace and the servants' housing quarters near Baghdad airport and remained short of vehicles, air support, computers and even electricity during the initial months of the weapons hunt, the Iraq Survey Group spent its first weeks installing air-conditioned trailers, a new dining facility, state-of-the-art software and even a sprinkler system for a new lawn, according to officials and experts who worked with the group this summer.
"They kept unloading crates and crates of new Dell laptops," said one Pentagon official who complained that the exploitation force lacked resources.
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Counting the money already spent, the total price tag for the search will approach $1 billion. Kay concluded that "whatever we find will probably differ from pre-war intelligence.
In other words, $1 billion spent for this folly -- this figment of the Neocon's imagination, this snipe hunt under the hot Iraqi sun.
The Bush administration is seeking more than $600 million from Congress to continue the hunt for conclusive evidence that Sadam Hussein's government had an illegal weapons program, officials said Wednesday.
The money, part of the White House's request for $87 billion in supplemental spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, comes on top of at least $300 million that has already been spent on the weapons search, the officials said.
Wait, you mean the U.S. taxpayers are paying $1 billion to not find any weapons of mass destruction, when Blix was perfectly willing to not find them for free?
Here's a better thought. Let Bush fund it out of his reelection funds. That's the only reason he wants to find these WMD's anyway, to get reelected.
