Sounds very close to George Romney's campaign-killer, "I was brainwashed."
Of course, after the war began he developed V-2 rockets, a prototype of jet planes, and was working on the atomic bomb. And it was Hitler's intent to seek an atomic bomb that led Einstein and others to write their famous letter to FDR which led to the Manhattan Project.
Should the world have waited until Hitler DID have confirmable WMDs before acting against him? If so, what level of proof would have been sufficient for the doubters? The murder of half of the citizens of London? The murder of all of them?
I know that most of the Democrat candidates and most of their voters would flee in terror from a history book. Facts are just a record of right-wing conspiracies of the past, don't you know. But isn't there just a single, lame-stream media reporter who can find the history section in the nearest library and wants to get a scoop?
If that one reporter is lurking here, he/she should look under "Third Reich," and then under "technological development." Nobody else in the press has the story. It's the scoop of a lifetime.
Congressman Billybob
By all means let Congress explore why the CIA overestimated Saddam's WMD stockpiles this time around. But let's do so while recalling that the CIA had underestimated the progress of his nuclear, chemical and biological programs before the first Gulf War. We are also now learning that the CIA has long underestimated the extent and progress of nuclear programs in both Libya and Iran. Why aren't Democrats and liberals just as alarmed about those intelligence failures?
Intelligence is as much art and judgment as it is science, and it is inherently uncertain. We elect Presidents and legislators to consider the evidence and then make difficult policy judgments that the voters can later hold them responsible for. Mr. Kay told National Public Radio that, based on the evidence he has seen from Iraq, "I think it was reasonable to reach the conclusion that Iraq posed an imminent threat." He added that "I must say I actually think what we learned during the inspection made Iraq a more dangerous place potentially, than in fact we thought it was even before the war."
This may be too complex for most Dems to grasp. Even the Dem candidates acquired their epithet "naive" the old fashioned way; they earned it.
KERRY MISLED COUNTRY INTO WAR!
Cited Hussein's possession of WMD as reason for war vote
KERRY LIED!
Alleged WMD stockpiles not found despite senator's assurances