Wait a minute. This can't be correct:

Al Qaeda-connected terror chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists are apparently trying to recruit Iraqi weapons of mass destruction experts and resources for possible future attacks against the U.S.-led coalition, the head of the Iraq Survey Group told FOX News Thursday.

...“When we have investigated certain labs and contacted certain former experts in the WMD program, we have found that they are being recruited by anti-coalition groups,” Duelfer told FOX News. “They are being paid by anti-coalition groups. We’re seeing interest in developing chemical munitions.”

He also told Fox News that about 10 or 12 sarin and mustard gas shells have been found in various locations in Iraq.

But that can't be! The WMD case was "cooked up in Texas," right? Right? Terrorists would never work with Pan-Arabist dogs, right? If any of this comes as to a surprise to you, you've been misled — but not by Bush.

TO THE ARCHIVES: Worth recalling:

David Kay, who recently resigned as the chief US weapons inspector in Iraq, said Tuesday it was "absolutely prudent"” for the US to go to war there.

"In fact," he told NBC television, "I think at the end of the inspection process, we'll paint a picture of Iraq that was far more dangerous than even we thought it was before the war. It was of a system collapsing. It was a country that had the capability in weapons of mass destruction areas, and terrorists, like ants to honey, were going after it."

It can't be made clearer than that. As I said yesterday, historians will examine why it took the West as long as it did to shake itself out its doubt-induced trance.