>At the very beginning of the story, there's something very telling:
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The media reports of smiling Iraqis leading inspectors around, opening up buildings and saying, "See, there's nothing here," infuriated Bush, who then would read intelligence reports showing the Iraqis were moving and concealing things. It wasn't clear what was being moved, but it looked to Bush as if Hussein was about to fool the world again.>
>The administration had no idea what was being moved (an indication that maybe the intelligence isn't too strong), yet they automatically assume it was WMDs. This was an administration that already had it's mind made up, and saw what it wanted to see in the intelligence reports.
And I wouldn't be surprised if they were moving empty crates, just to fool the spies. I would have done that in their place.