Oh. My. God.

Part...whatever.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday that U.S. investigators have been unable to locate or identify the Iraqi officers whose recorded voices plotting to deceive United Nations inspectors provided a dramatic highlight to his presentation to the United Nations last year about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

"We can't find those guys. I don't know who those guys were. But the tapes were real tapes. We didn't make them up," Powell said in an interview with six newspapers, including The Sun.

  Baltimore Sun article

You know, it just amazes me. Grown men. Leaders of the world's superpower.

The tapes were real. But we don't know who the guys on them were.

If it weren't for the current security problems, "People would have thrown awards at us" for toppling Hussein [Powell said].

Dear Jesus.

In yesterday's interview, Powell again expressed disappointment that some of the intelligence used in the speech proved to be wrong, including his assertion that Iraq possessed mobile biological weapons labs. He acknowledged that the failure to find the weapons had affected America's credibility.

"I'm very disappointed that all that I said was not accurate. Not all that I said was inaccurate," Powell said. "The part about mobile vans turned out to be not based on good intelligence, but we thought it was when I said it."

Colin, old buddy. Time to cut your losses and shut up. You are sounding dumber and dumber all the time. In fact, you are sounding like your boss. What are you guys snorting up there in the Oval Office? Is it the Ambien, maybe? What?

He's disappointed.

Yeah. So are we.

I wonder if anybody in Iraq is disappointed. I wonder if any mother whose son won't ever be coming home is disappointed.

Aw, never mind.