Duhh

In the runup to the Iraq war, there were those of us who saw the Bush's rhetoric as being something along the lines of "I've got the secret evidence...in my pocket! But you can't see it!" All of the explanations for why they couldn't actually tell us where the WMDs were never made any sense, and it was embarassing that our liberal media actually covered for this. And, when they told Blix where the weapons were, and they weren't there, and they blamed Blix...

Well, what can I say. Every journalist involved in this fraud should just kill themselves in shame. But, now we have the Canadian's view:

Ottawa — Canadian officials say they challenged the U.S. to share secret intelligence showing that the Baghdad regime had dangerous weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war, but Washington failed to deliver, thus cementing the Chrétien government's resolve to stay out of the conflict.

Washington's refusal to share raw intelligence with its close ally seemed puzzling at the time, one senior official said. But a year later, the reason now seems clear: "They didn't have any evidence."

The Americans were trying hard to draw Canada into the military coalition poised to attack Iraq, or at least win the political support of then-prime-minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberal government.

At least twice President George W. Bush's advisers said they would come to Ottawa "to present the case" for war, says this Ottawa official, who worked with Mr. Chrétien on the Iraq file in the Prime Minister's Office.

"We weren't interested in 'the case.' We were looking for the evidence," the PMO official said, dismissing the U.S. offer as nothing more than a "PowerPoint slide show.",