So here we are in January of 2003, over six months since the renewed talk of war with Iraq began. In that time, we’ve gone from no one taking the idea of disarming Saddam seriously to UN inspectors on the ground in Iraq running into brick walls. From the report of Hans Blix to the UN:

The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed. Iraq has declared that it only produced VX on a pilot scale, just a few tonnes and that the quality was poor and the product unstable. Consequently, it was said, the agent was never weaponised.

UNMOVIC, however, has information that conflicts with this account. There are indications that Iraq had worked on the problem of purity and stabilisation and that more had been achieved than has been declared.

What amazes me is that a year ago in the State of the Union, Bush named Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as the Axis of Evil. Well, a year later, he’s 2 for 3. And don’t think that Iran won’t fall once Iraq does. The seeds of democracy are firmly planted in Tehran.

The idiocy from the left continues: Helen Thomas, the wicked witch of the White House briefing room, has called Bush the worst president ever. Ever? Helen, that’s a bold statement. There have been some real loser presidents in the least 10 years.