[Reeses]

There were legal questions brought up about invading a country that was not an imminent danger to America. The WMD charge was the end run around that. Nobody was certain that ready WMD existed but the chance was used as legal justification to invade. This war needed to happen so I don’t care but using this end run in the future probably won’t work again.

[leprechaun9]

When Saddam invaded Kuwait, it was readily accepted that this was an act of war. Many nations (the "Coalition") rallied to drive Saddam out of Kuwait. That war was never ended! Remember only a cease fire was declared to save the slaughter of Iraqis.

After years and years of (useless) U.N. resolutions and threats, President Bush ended the cease fire and continued the war that the Coalition had so willingly signed onto at the outset.

There was NO second Iraq war with the Coalition. The useless cease fire was brought to an end, as well as the geonocide of Iraqis by Saddam (in the hundreds of thousands)!

[SomeCallMeTim]

Nobody was certain that ready WMD existed

Sigh..... even here. :-(

No one is EVER "certain" in the intelligence business. But, there clearly was 'consensus' that a stockpile existed. The Russians even warned us to expect them to be used against us if we invaded. Even as the US was closing in on Bagdad, Saddam was threatening to USE what he did not have.

It just kills me how people conveniently forget what they don't want to remember.