• If they found WMD in Iraq, then the BS gets substantiated, and they look like heroes.
  
• If none are found, they can spend the rest of their lives trying to magically change their Iron-Clad, 100% garunteed claims into carefully parsed, semantic arguments that they'd later claim even 4 yr olds should have seen through. Heck how could anyone trust Bush and Condi to ever tell the truth?
• If none were found in Iraq, and then they tried to plant some and were caught, then Bush and Cheney would be be War Criminals, they would have been impeached, and they'd both would have spent the rest of their lives in prison or swinging from a yard arm.

I still dont believe that Bu$h was ignorant about the Oilraq deception.

Did he want the world to believer that Saddam had WMDs, yes....that is obvious.

Did he believe it himself, I seriously doubt it.
The FACT that he rewarded every one who FAILED to do the publically stated goals of Oilraq, proves that they did EXACTLY what they were SUPPOSED to do.
The FACT that an oil man Bu$h, an oil man Cheney, an oil woman Rice were responsible for record profits for the OIL Business, is just further verification.

Danny-boi....an ass clown with a Straw Man argument (ok not even a straw man more like a dung man).

The penalty for being wrong is much lower than the penalty for getting caught being proactively deceptive. Either way, over 1 million Iraqis are dead, and 4 mil are refugees.

Thus far, the only PENALTY is untold riche, Urinary Power and a bit of embarassment to the unwashed masses.