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What no one wants to admit on the left is the following - everyone thought Saddam had WMD. It was just a question of how to deal with it. Now, were we going to let a cheap dictator get away with endless bluster, or were our fine words about putting him in his place going to mean something? A salutory lesson has been learned as a result - dictators cannot go on endlessly defying the civilised world.
Yes, the Howard Deans will now proceed to jump up and down and ask where the WMD's are. The jury is still out on that - but finding WMD's was only part of the question. The practical aspect was to suck the life out of terrorism by killing one of its sponsors, and to make it clear that the West means what it says.
Regards, Ivan