Dropping the Other Shoe.

In a strange moment of candor, Wolfowitz tells Vanity Fair that the WMD argument for overthrowing Saddam was chosen "for bureaucratic reasons," since "it was the one reason everyone could agree on." (He also lends credence to the argument advanced in this Fred Kaplan article that removing troops from Saudi Arabia was one of the central purposes of the Iraq war.) Meanwhile, in the same AP story, the head of US Marines in Iraq says of the WMDs, "they're simply not there." Looks like the Bushies have some explaining to do...If they follow the usual pattern, I suspect they'll answer any tough question with a flurry of 9/11-esque horror stories.