Why Iraqi WMDs are redundant

HAWKS and warmongers may think that searching for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is now pointless because the war is over, or that bits of indications that Iraq possessed them are enough to justify the war and end the search. 

But they do not reckon with the unease of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair that drives them to try and salvage something of their electoral credibility, for all their slick presumptions at home and cavalier strutting abroad. For Bush at least, an ambitious re-election bid looms for next year.