Just found an article from late 2003 and at that time Saddam’s old intel guy al Douri, Zarqawis group and Ansar al Islam were becoming a big problem and we were starting to capture foreign fighters, so Gen. Abizaid put in a request for more counterterrorism people to help hunt down these old regime Baathists. The admin decided to divert the ISG from focusing on finding WMD to focusing on hunting these guys and their networks down.
As soon as we did this, whadaya know, the Dems started their no wmd mantra.