[ClearCase_guy]

they ought to be asking where they went and question our inability to find them

That's their Plan B. They will switch to it some day soon. People like John Kerry and Al Hunt will write op-ed pieces saying "Look, we KNOW Iraq had huge stockpiles of WMD. Yet we cannot find them. If a Democrat were in the White House, we would spare no expense, use any amount of military resources to find those WMD! When it comes to foreign policy, Bush can't get the job done. Vote Democrat, and get serious about threats agaisnt the US."

[MWS]

You are probably right, actually. They will most likely switch to that strategy after the primaries, at a time when they need to appeal to the mainstream. It is easy to forget that at the current moment they are mostly concerned with appealing to their radical base, which does not accept that WMDs exist.