CIA Admits Iraq Had No Chemical Weapons

So now will all the wingnuts apologize for lambasting folks like former weapons inspector Scott Ritter and others who dared contract the Bush Administration’s bogus claims in the run-up to the war? Not bloody likely.

Concord Monitor:

In a formal acknowledgment of the obvious, the CIA has issued a classified report revising its prewar assessments on Iraq and concluding that Baghdad abandoned its chemical weapons programs in 1991, according to intelligence officials familiar with the document.

The report marks the first time the CIA officially has disavowed its prewar judgments, and is one in a “series” of updated assessments the agency is producing as part of a belated effort to correct its record on Iraq’s alleged weapons programs, officials said.

For an agency that prides itself on providing the latest intelligence to policymakers, even the title of the new report reads like a year-old headline: “Iraq: No Large-Scale Chemical Warfare Efforts Since Early 1990s.”