Whitewash Across The Atlantic

The Washington Post says any US enquiry into why no WMDs were found in Iraq is unlikely to reach conclusions before 2005.

"Nobody expects any hard conclusions to be reached before the Nov. 2 election -- either by congressional probes or an independent inquiry -- on what went wrong with the intelligence. Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), chairman of the House intelligence committee and a former CIA case officer, said recently that partisan politics would make it impossible to get any real work done before the election. 'Not this year,' Goss said. 'You couldn't get the members together, or even the rules set up.' "