Toronto Star -- US Credibility on Iraq Has Eroded to an Extent That It is Becoming Hard to Believe Anything from the Bush Administration

What the U.N. Inspectors have said:

First, Blix:

No, his inspectors were not spied on. No, the Iraqis could not have had advance knowledge of the sites to be inspected. No, he did not think Iraqi agents were posing as scientists, or that real scientists were being whisked out of the country to avoid interrogations.

No, he found no evidence of Iraqis hiding or moving banned materials in or out of the country.

No, he did not believe that Iraq had cleaned up some sites before inspections, as Colin Powell alleged, using before and after satellite pictures that Blix exposed as having been taken "several weeks apart."

No, the trucks that Powell identified as mobile labs producing biological weapons were not in the germ warfare business; they were carrying food-tasting and seed-processing equipment.

No, Iraq had not hidden the long-range missiles that the inspectors ordered destroyed: "These weapons were declared; they were not clandestine."

No, he found no evidence that Iraq was producing and storing chemical or biological weapons in underground bunkers.

No, he saw no persuasive evidence of Iraqi links to Al Qaeda. "There are other states where there appear to be stronger links."

Now, ElBaradei:

No, there was no uranium bought from Niger. Documents purporting to show that were forged.

No, the International Atomic Energy Agency found no evidence that high-strength aluminum tubes were imported for uranium enrichment.

Even if they were, it was unlikely that Iraq had the capacity to redesign them for such usage.

No, there is no evidence of Iraq using imported high-strength magnets in its nuclear program.

No, there is no evidence of a resumption of "prohibited nuclear or nuclear-related activities."

The evaporation of American credibility is a tragedy whose effects may outlast the war.

I couldn't say it better. Truth may be the first casualty of war but this administration has an unequaled record in dishonesty.