The Bush administration has publicly admitted that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has ended in Iraq. After a nearly two-year search, no stockpiles of nuclear, chemical, biological weapons were found. The search actually ended before Christmas but the Bush administration was silent on the issue until Wednesday following the publication of a front-page report in the Washington Post. The Bush administration repeatedly cited Saddam Hussein’s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction as the main reason to go to war. Two days before the March 2003 invasion, Bush told the nation “the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.” Pressed by reporters on Wednesday, the White House maintained the invasion of Iraq was justified even though no such weapons were ever found.