[Restorer]

DESPITE the intelligence failure that led the Bush administration to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon is pressing ahead with the development of technologies designed to destroy WMDs.

Let me get this straight.

We haven't found any WMDs in Iraq, therefore we will never have any need for a way to destroy them, in Iraq or anywhere else.

Does not compute.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This is called "desperate for a sneering lead line" in J-school.

[andyk]

We haven't found any WMDs in Iraq, therefore we will never have any need for a way to destroy them

I think you've pretty much got it. Not only that, but it's also apparently clear that there was an intelligence failure because no WMDs have been found in Iraq.