[AaronInCarolina]

So what? Over a thousand U.S. soldiers are dead and thousands more wounded for reasons that prove to be untrue, and all Neal can say about that is "So what?" According to the report all it took to keep a lid on Hussein's WMD program was UN santions. Wouldn't keeping those in place have been cheaper than the invasion?

First of all, your premise is wrong. They died to remove a genocidal maniac who was a threat to the whole world. This report does nothing to change the perception that Saddam Hussein was a crazy man and a threat to us and the whole world! The reason Boortz says "So What" is that if we had not acted, the sanctions would have eroded or expired completely, and Hussein would re-amass the WMD's! What the report essentially concluded was that while he may not have had stockpiles when we went in, he had a plan and driving desire to re-constitute these WMD's. So if we didn't do it now, we would have to do it within a year or two. If you can't see that, then I think you are blind. We removed a mad man who would never give up on the dream to possess WMD's.

Secondly, we could not have kept the sanctions in place. They were going away. Why do you think Saddam Hussein was patiently waiting for the day when his plan to bribe all of our so-called "allies" (France, Germany, Russia) to block our invasion strategy and to get all sanctions revoked came to fruition? Or have you had your head in the sand for the past 6 months?

[Michael81Dus]

I don´t challenge that Saddam was and is evil/mad. But I doubt that he posed a threat to the whole world - at least by 2003. Any hints for the opposite, now that we all learned that he had no WMD when the war started?

[Non-Sequitur]

They died to remove a genocidal maniac who was a threat to the whole world. This report does nothing to change the perception that Saddam Hussein was a crazy man and a threat to us and the whole world!

In what way?

Secondly, we could not have kept the sanctions in place. They were going away.

When?

[zencat]

I do not argue that Saddam needed to be removed, WMD or not. But the attitude of "So What?" in regards to the intelligence regarding WMDs just doesn't cut it.

The Bush administration made the case to the American people that there were WMDs. Colin Powell representing our nation made his presentation at UN. This has harmed US credibility when it comes to making future claims and is a massive intelligence failure on many fronts.

There is simply no denying this fact.