Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that Saddam may have destroyed his weapons of mass destruction before the war began.

If Rumsfeld's saying that, it's a major admission of a cockup by the Bush administration, that could affect their supporters badly. If Saddam had no WMDs, then that takes away the justification that the American public felt for the war. The kind of person that had to have war against a regime like Saddam's justified to them by there being a personal risk if there was no war isn't going to be too impressed if they find out there was no threat in the first place. I mean, do they give a flying fuck about some liberated Islamic coloured folks down in Ragheadland?

And if the US screws up its reconstruction (and they haven't been doing too good a job so far), this could be a strike against the Bush re-election campaign.

Assuming Fox News decides to broadcast this little admission.