Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of the key architects of the plan to take out Saddam, said yesterday on his return from Iraq.

1) "I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet." He also asserted that Iraqis themselves have little concern about the weapons issue.

2) On postwar planning, defense officials made three assumptions that "turned out to underestimate the problem". The fact that WMD's are not a priority would seem to indicate that he does not believe they will be found because if he did, if looters found them first they might sell them to the highest bidder.

One has to wonder with the CIA and the State Department proving to be right in their arguments with the DoD and White house on almost every count on pre-war issues from concerns about WMD intelligence, to the need for U.N. support for war/reconstruction, to the likelihood of armed resistance after the fall of Saddam, discrediting the role that Chalabi would play, how to set-up a postwar administration, etc the relative power of Powell, Tenet versus Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice on other difficult foreign policy decisions like Libera, Syria, North Korea, and Iran.