[The Old Hoosier]

I certainly do not believe that Bush lied about WMD. He may have been misled by bad intel into a bad war. He may also have made a bad decision about what we do in cases where "we don't know."

It's a pretty costly thing to start a war and find out you were wrong.

[gusopol3]

not agreeing with your premise, maybe he's in the position Lincoln was said to be in with regard to his marriage: "If you make a bad bargain, hold it all the tighter."

[MaineVoter2002]

I certainly do not believe that Bush lied about WMD. He may have been misled by bad intel into a bad war. He may also have made a bad decision about what we do in cases where "we don't know."

It's a pretty costly thing to start a war and find out you were wrong.

Bush didn't go into Iraq because of WMD. He went there because of Saddam's support of terrorism and his connections to Al Qaeda. The only part WMD played was to determine that we should take him out sooner rather than wait until he had the bomb. Bush had made speeches on this prior to the war. He said it's better to go in now instead of waiting until he already has WMD which could empower him to change the geopolitics of the ME.