[roses of sharon]

Remember, Saddam was our friend...he never had WMD...he never used WMD....he had no means to create them...he had no money to make them....he had no science to make them...he never had nuke material...Israel never destroyed Saddams nuke plant...he never fired on Israel...he never invaded his neighbors...he never threatened Israel, other Arab nations or the US....he never fought a war with the US...he never signed a surrender agreement...he never agreed to document his WMD distruction....he never attempted to kill a US President....he never murdered his people....his sons never murdered their people....he wanted a diplomatic relationship with the US....he and his sons hated OBL...OBL hated Saddam and Sons....he and his sons had NO common interests with Islamic terrorists....he never paid Islamic terrorists....or harboured Islamic terrorists...he hated Islam....he never shot at our planes in the no-fly-zones...he did not threated the US after 9/11....

Saddam and Sons were innocent and completely sane, and simply wanted to become a part of the international community.

[LibFreeUSA]

-"Remember, Saddam was..."

It's amazing what the 'critics' are forced to either DEFEND or IGNORE or both (I don't know which is more dangerous), in order to VALIDATE their criticism on this intelligence crap!

You have correctly stated all of them!

[meema]

Yes, roses, he was all of those things, but the President has an obligation to sell the war on those things. Not on what he did use. If he believed all the PNAC stuff, then he should tell us, and heads should roll. And we all know who helped screen and pick all those high placed officials...
It is not a crime to be misled...even a President can have that happen to him. But then he needs to clean house.
Because even I knew a long time ago that the administration was telling 'stories', and allowingg suvh stories to be passed around. My daughter-in-law, with whom I live, believed Sadaam was behind all this stuff. Every time I hear or think of the phrase, 'Smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud', I feel a chill and then ANGER. Because a large portion of the public believed them.
My family couldn't hardly believe that I was against the war against Iraq, until I explained what was happening. Talk about being SAD! I still hoped that W would take the bull by the horns, and explain to the people. I thought he had more than enough courage...
I was (past tense) so proud of him.
I haven't read the whole thread yet, but my thanks go to John Galt for his honest posts.