Did you hear? Iraq didn't actually possess any weapons of mass destruction. Given the amount of attention the media has given the subject, we sincerely hope that you have.

In the same month that the first bombs fell on Iraq, a report surveying the country found there were no WMDs.

After the discovery in March 2003, the first preliminary report from Charles A. Duelfer, the head of the Iraq Survey Group, wouldn't be heard before the Senate until October. In that same month, President Bush admitted to the American people that there were no threatening weapons to be found in Iraq. The war - which Bush largely justified by presenting Saddam Hussein and Iraq's nuclear capabilities as a threat - lost its basis.

Now, months later, the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has officially come to an end. The delay in the final report was said to have been caused by a need to examine hundreds of documents and possible leads.

Although the most moving - and in many people's minds, damning - concession came in October when Bush made his announcement, with the official end of the search serving as the last nail in a coffin full of apparent deception fed to us by the President.

And, just like in a funeral, it's time for America to bury this casket and move on.

The man has admitted he was wrong. It was a grave wrong that has cost the lives of about 1,300 U.S. soldiers and billions of dollars, but still, it's time to move on.

In a recent interview with Barbara Walters, Bush said he expected to find these weapons, but like everyone else, was mislead. The survey found that that Iraq worked to cheat United Nation's sanctions and planned to continue building weapons at a later time.

Bush has now made promises to solve what was wrong with our intelligence gathering.

No matter what side of the political fence you are on, America reelected Bush in November, and now he's who we have to work with.

In the same interview with Walters, Bush maintained that the war was still worth it.

"Saddam was dangerous. And ... the world was safer without him in power," he said.

Undoubtedly, there is some truth to that. Just as it is true that there are many other dangerous threats to our country that we could have paid attention to. But, for the moment, let's let that go.

It's time to put the criticism and politics aside and begin cleaning up our mess. As the old adage goes: There's no use crying over spilled milk.

The soldiers and intelligence that were working to discover the weapons have now been reassigned to help solve problems with insurgency. Let this be an inspiration for Bush's dissenters, the news media and the those who voted against him. Let's turn our focus from Bush and what he's done wrong to what he is now doing to fix problems in Iraq and the U.S.

There are far too many troops on extended stays and far too little progress in making relations better with Iraq's people. There are elections to get underway and an Iraqi government to get on it's feet.

If we spend more time looking for solutions there will be nothing to criticize.