This commission has long way to go

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

Americans are starting to get a few answers to go with the questions about illicit Iraqi weapons.

It's now clear the Bush administration dispatched American troops to a false alarm. Over a little more than two weeks, an extraordinary series of revelations have stripped the invasion of much of the hyperbolic cover in which it had been wrapped.

First, chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay said no weapons stockpiles have been found, and probably won't be. Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted he didn't know whether, with better information, he would have recommended war. On Thursday, CIA Director George Tenet said his analysts never reported "an imminent threat."

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