[JohnGalt]

It's a bogeyman story designed to scare to soccermoms into politically supporting a particular policy, in this case a war 10,000 miles away in order to achieve geopolitcal goals of a US presence in the Middle East.

[hobbes1]

No, Remember what Wolfowitz said awhile back.


There were several reasons, but WMD was the one that was actually translatable.

[hobbes1]

And no, not geopolitical goals. Legitimate National Security.


Iraq was definitely involved in the first Trade Center Bombing, we KNOW that. But the Administration in '93, changed terrorism from consideration as State Sponsored to Criminal Concerns (which is the most important issue in this years election).

We already had a prescence in the East, in Saudi Arabia, and we were actively warring in Iraq, enforcing the No Fly Zones. This in and of itself was sapping vital stregnth that needed to be freed up to police the War on Terror.

And You surely cant be falling into that whole "Bush conjured up the WMD argument" when the world is replete with instances of EVERYONE being on baord with the idea that they existed, from all Democrats to the UN, to Eurotrash leaders, prior to Bushs election.