Look away if you dont like getting your eyeballs dirty.

Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team unable to find any weapons are to leave Iraq.
“The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms, according to participants. The 75th Exploitation Task Force, as the group is formally known, has been described from the start as the principal component of the U.S. plan to discover and display forbidden Iraqi weapons. The group’s departure, expected next month, marks a milestone in frustration for a major declared objective of the war.”

Despite this, Bush won’t let UN inspectors back in. “Some critics are voicing suspicions that the hunt for weapons has a lower priority than the Bush administration previously claimed. Of the list of about 900 suspected sites compiled by Washington for inspection at the outset of hostilities, only about 75 have been visited so far, Pentagon officials conceded last week.” Very fishy stuff.

And while all this distracting stuff has been going on, U.S. Congress Move to Link Mexican Immigration With Oil. The House International Relations Committee has told Mexico that any accord on immigration issues with Mexico should include an agreement to allow U.S. companies to invest in the state oil company Pemex.

Without Congressional Approval the Bush administration is quietly reshaping environmental policy to expand logging and other development by settling a series of lawsuits, many of them filed by industry groups. And as a result of settlements, the administration has announced plans to remove wilderness protections for millions of acres in Utah including salmon and the northern spotted owl, and has reversed a Clinton-era ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

* Added on Tuesday: US Army Patents New Biological Weapons Delivery System “The United States Army has developed and patented a new grenade that it says can be used to wage biowarfare. This is in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which explicitly prohibits development of bioweapons delivery devices.”

(All this info was found on Chapel Perilous)