One way in which the recall seems to have been good for George W. Bush is that it distracted attention from David Kay's report on the hunt for those elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. For months now, one of my conservative friends has been e-mailing me that when that report was in, it would prove that Saddam had weapons and was about to use them on the U.S., no doubt about it. Well, if anything, it proves the opposite. Here's Fred Kaplan's reading of it, which among other things extracts the claim that the policy of sanctions and inspections was working just fine. If it wasn't more fun to talk about Arnold grabbing ladies' breasts, the press might have pointed this out.