Wasn't that the theme of the republicans during those eight mizzerable years of [gasp] peace and prosperity of the Clinton Adminstration? Jeebus, as far as they were concerned, if Clinton was breathing he was lying.

Contrast that to Chimpy and Dickless Cheney

“It’s going to take some additional, considerable period of time in order to look in all the cubby holes and the ammo dumps and all the places in Iraq where you might expect to find something like that,” Cheney said in an interview with National Public Radio. “It doesn’t take a large storage space to store deadly toxins, or even just the capacity to produce it.”

President George W. Bush, in his state of the union address on Tuesday, claimed that Mr Kay's cautiously worded interim report last year had "identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction- related programme activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations".

That was followed by vice-president Dick Cheney, who said in an interview with National Public Radio on Thursday: "I believe they had programmes designed to produce weapons of mass destruction. We still don't know the whole extent of what they did have."

Mr Kay, who was appointed in June 2003 to head the search, told Reuters on Friday that he did not think the US would make any significant new discoveries. "In terms of understanding that programme, we're well on our way, almost at the end."

He said that Iraqi stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons were destroyed after the 1991 Gulf war and not rebuilt. Regarding the country's nuclear programme, he said: "There had been some restart of activities, but they were rudimentary."

Meanwhile, five more GI's were killed today in Iraq. Supporting 1600 Crew's search for "Weapons of mass destruction-related program activities."

I'm sure that the families of soldiers in Iraq are much more understanding after the LoTU speech. It just all make sense after about a quart of kool-aid.