Finally, the US stops looking for WMDs in Iraq. Here's a quote from ABC news:
Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer is to deliver his final report on the search next month. "It's not going to fundamentally alter the findings of his earlier report," McClellan said, referring to preliminary findings from last September. Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either. Bush unapologetically defended his decision to invade Iraq.
While it is some what surprising to see the semi-critical statement at the end of this quote, the substance of it has been clear for some time. The irony of course is that the tactics of the Bush administration has been to take the belligerent position and stick to it no matter what.
Here's where I wonder really about the "Wisdom of the Crowd" mentality, or even the argument that media is in some sense self correcting. Now that the administration itself has release information that indicates that the pretext for invasion was completely wrong, will the blogosphere "self correct"? Even if the bloggers get to "correct" the media to continuously mention that the Bush administration's policy for entering Iraq was completely mistaken, there is no connection between the "self correction" and the policies of the administration. Habbermas, who championed the idea of a 4th estate, understood that media ceased to function as a corrective mechanism decades ago.
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