Dowd is a vicious and ignorant person.
First of all, 1,370 soldiers have not been killied in action in Iraq; unfortunately, soldiers die during routine training, while being transported, etc., so statistically speaking, some of the non-combat deaths that have occurred in Iraq would have occurred even if we had never invaded.
Secondly, we have found WMD, disproving the baseless theory that Hussein had destroyed his pre-Gulf War stockpiles and/or had no post-Gulf War WMD activities. We have found rockets filled with cyclosarin, WMD-related programs, and seed stocks for various biological weapons programs.
Thirdly, we didn't go into war because of then-current possession of WMD; Dowd, like that witch Boxer, needs to actually read the Congressional War Resolution in order to understand the multiple reasons, which included Iraq's aggression against the U.S., its support of terrorist activities, and Hussein's oppression of the Iraqi people.
And lastly, the SSCI investigation on pre-war intelligence cleared the Bush administration of any allegations of misusing that intelligence to mislead us into invading Iraq. The resulting report was approved by unanimously by all Dems as well as Republicans. And the only person I have found on record calling Iraq an "imminent threat" is former senator John Edwards.
>>>And the only person I have found on record calling Iraq an "imminent threat" is former senator John Edwards.
And that was only to his political ambitions...
Well stated, as usual, Henry. Unfortunately, facts don't seem to matter to the Democrats.
I wish every single time someone like Boxer tells her viscious lies that the Republicans would hold a press conference, during prime time, to set the people straight.