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"The Rockefeller memo was disclosed in November 2003 - almost 2 years after Rockefeller's January 2002 "official trip" to Saudi Arabia, etc."

Keyword "disclosed, we do not know when it was formulated.

"I think all these bozos share similar goals. Maybe I need a weaker gauge of tinfoil - perhaps the war was a foregone conclusion in January 2002; and the DEMs started planning impeachment (based on "Iraq lies") then. But I kinda doubt it."

Not tinfoil if events did happen, Saddam had every opportunity over the past years after Gulf War to come clean and uphold what he agreed to. The whole world knew who and what Saddam was, weren't we up to 17 and counting resolutions against the guy??

That has been one of the long standing accusations that right after 9/11 President Bush wanted Saddam's head.

Not tinfoil if events did happen, Saddam had every opportunity over the past years after Gulf War to come clean and uphold what he agreed to. The whole world knew who and what Saddam was, weren't we up to 17 and counting resolutions against the guy??

That has been one of the long standing accusations that right after 9/11 President Bush wanted Saddam's head.

I figure the DEMs were honestly as convinced as GWB was that Iraq needed more than a spanking. And today, all they are doing is politicizing a military conflict and playing Monday-moring quarterback. If it wasn't Iraq, it would have been whatever other subject seemed to draw the most attention, or seemed to offer the most convincing political attack against the opposition party.

IOW, this playout of attack wasn't planned that far in advance, for all the DEMs knew, Sadam would capitulate to an adequate weapons inspection regime at some point.

Thought provoking article -> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518031/posts noting that the current frame of argument relating to justification for military action is making it MORE difficult to undertake preemptive attacks, and ironically, therefore MORE difficult to credibly insist on effective weapons inspection programs.

That has been one of the long standing accusations that right after 9/11 President Bush wanted Saddam's head.

Yes it has been, including the personal charge that he was paying back Saddam for plotting his father's assassination. These people are so far over the top that my only hope is that the world loses contact with them.

Here is the reason we went to war...fear of the unknown. The President had to make a call, he had to determine what kind of risk we could live with and what kind of risk we would preemptively take out. The Democrats lacked the courage to oppose the President's decision and now blame him for their own gutlessness. It's pathetic and it rests at the core of their philosophy, everything is the fault of someone else in their minds.