Liberal news organizations both here and in England lay low briefly after the successful conclusion of the Iraq war to give people time to forget about their dire predictions of "quagmire," "massive civilian casualties," etc. But now they're back in full force, trying to deprive the Bush and Blair administrations of credit for their successful policy.

The effort to retrospectively discredit the Iraq war takes a number of forms--the claim that the special forces' rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch was a fraud, CBS News' recent story asserting that a bunker bombed by the U.S. at the beginning of the war in an effort to kill Saddam Hussein never existed, and so on. But the left has fastened most gleefully on the alleged failure to find weapons of mass destruction. The claim that "no such weapons have been found" is repeated constantly in the press. While that claim is untrue--some such weapons have in fact been found--it certainly appears to be true that so far, these discoveries have been less substantial than expected. Whether this is because the weapons were destroyed at the outset of the war, or were moved to Syria, as Debka File says, or are still in Iraq and simply haven't been found yet, is unclear. In the meantime, however, the left is doing all it can to use the absence of definitive WMD discoveries to discredit the war and to cast doubt on the motives of the American and British governments.[...]