[John H K]

Intelligence sources said then and still say now that some of the heaviest fighting by special forces occurred around Al Qaim, on the Syrian border. The Iraqis were desperate to keep that highway open to continue the access to Syria for those convoys which were carrying senior Iraqi officials, carloads of cash, and the people and materials key to Saddam's WMDs.

Despite all we were told about senior regime officials fleeing to Syria, almost the entire deck of cards has been apprehended, all of them in Iraq.

[Lizavetta]

Question: If there's a known crack house in your neighborhood - known as a crackhouse because people buy crack there, known crack dealers go in and out, etc. - and the police chief orders a raid that takes several months or more to enact....and when they cops finally get there they find no crack.....would people be saying the police chief lied?

Or would they think the crack house took their crack and flushed it down the john, sold all they had, or moved it to their friend's house in the next town?

[dark_lord]

It isn't relevant in any case.
We moved a "counter" -- getting troops in Iraq. Every play Risk? We need a military position there.

Did Bush lie? Well, lets just say he took the most optimal intelligence to make the case we needed to have an excuse to position our troops there. Who cares if WMD are there, or were there? That was a political position for the public.

[Verginius Rufus]

Jed Babbin, the author of this piece, coined the saying "Going to war without France is like going deerhunting without your accordion."