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The Art of Camouflage - David Kay comes clean, almost.

Slate's Fred Kaplan does a little deconstruction and distillation of David Kay. The gist is that Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction, didn't have any working programs, etc.

For example, in an interview conducted late Saturday and published in today's New York Times, Kay says, "I'm personally convinced that there were not large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction. We don't find the people, the documents or the physical plants that you would expect to find if the production was going on."

There were lots of "weapons of mass destruction related program activities" (using the verbal yoga from Bush's State of the Union speech), but that, as Kaplan points out, could have described "the act of reading a textbook on nuclear physics." Woot.