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Already posted his great link at #22.

As Torie Clarke said last March, there are, and have been, reams and reams and reams of documents available to the press and public proving Saddam's atrocities. Have been for years.

According to Paul Wolfowitz, our guys have already recovered more post-war documents than they recovered post-WWII, pre-Nuremburg trial.

It will be many years before we know the extent of his crimes. We know enough now to count him in the company of the cruelest leaders in history.

It could only be a conscious choice of the press to cover them up. Again, see the links at #22.

Repeat the truth enough times...

As Torie Clarke said last March, there are, and have been, reams and reams and reams of documents available to the press and public proving Saddam's atrocities. Have been for years.

Well, Bush I cited Amnesty International and other reporting on Hussein's cruelty and torture and mass murder tactics.

So it isn't news at all.

I don't get Register's cartoon unless he's being sarcastic.

Our pretext for going to war was either true or it wasn't. Everybody always knew Saddam was an animal so I don't get how people are supposed to be surprised unless this sudden 'discovery' of Saddam The Monster is supposed to somehow justify our lack of WMD evidence.

Lack of WMD evidence is a serious blow to our foreign policy objectives. Otherwise, it will always be said, both here and overseas, that we invaded under false or contrived pretext. We need the WMD. Even a fairly small amount of WMD will do it, provided we can prove it wa produced by Saddam's techs. And it may be even more important to find the evidence for our partners in Britain, Spain, Italy, etc. who took a lot of heat from their peacenik majorities in order to support us.

Naturally, no one will weep over Saddam. Just execute him. But an outright invasion by a major power is a serious matter when it claims it is beng threatened by WMD but can't produce any evidence. Failure to find them or compelling evidence of massive aid to Al-Qaeda by Iraq will undermine our future efforts in pursuing a War On Terror, will undermine our ability to attract allies in taking on Iran and Syria and North Korea.