[Finalapproach29er]

Isn't this all that needs to be said?

[kingu]

If Bush had said all you had there, he would have been impeached for not following accepted politically correct dialog.

Just get over it. The RATs don't care what Bush's explanations are about anything. It doesn't matter that Bill Clinton did not seek the permission of the UN or the French to go into Kosovo. It doesn't matter if every President since Reagan has said that Saddam had WMDs, it does not matter if the Iraqi army distributed chemical weapon countermeasures to protect their troops at the start of the war -- nothing matters because Bush is a Republican who dares use the word God.

Just move on.. Nothing to see here.

[Torie]

Nope. The best explanation is that everybody thought Saddam had WMD, the British, the French, the Germans, and the Russians. Heck, maybe even Saddam thought he had them. The issue was how best to get him to give them up. The issue was whether to leave the US sitting in the sand indefinitely, while Blix flounced around, which was not an option. That combined with our other concerns about Saddam, as a force for conflict in the middle east, for his harboring of terrorists, and for just plain humanitarian reasons, was a more than adequate basis for taking him down.

[hocndoc]

He could say that our intelligence community and that of other countries believed what Saddam believed. We believed what his own people were telling him, for pity's sake!