As they say in the comic book thrillers, meanwhile back on the farm, the Iraq Survey Group has released its final report, and it reconfirms that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction.

The report also debunks the last hope for those convinced that WMDs would be found: There is no evidence that nuclear, biological or chemical weapons were moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war.

The findings refute the principal reason for going to war in Iraq once and for all. Before the invasion, the rhetoric was clear. Iraq supposedly posed a clear and present danger because of its stockpiles and ongoing development of WMDs.

With the latest revelations, the last hide-out – floated by many supporters of the Bush administration to explain the missing munitions – has been exposed. Syria helped Iraq with its smuggling operations, but did not conspire to hide Iraq’s WMDs.

Iraq didn’t have the weapons. Sanctions and U.N. inspectors had succeeded in defanging Saddam’s illegal weapons’ program. Those weapons existed only in flawed intelligence reports and the minds of political and military planners, looking for a justification for war.