‘Anyway, it’s delightful but fairly rare when one can get into an interesting and stimulating debate without feeling like he’s being attacked by a legion of elementary-school kids on a playground.’
Your original implication that President Bush lied us into the Iraq war amounts to a charge that he deliberately murdered thousands of allied troops and hundreds of thousands of other humans. It is a charge of Treason, justifying the death penalty. You make this attack on a man who, for all of his faults, is clearly an honorable patriot. Then you are annoyed that people react emotionally to your vile calumny.
It doesn’t amount to that at all. It means he had reasons for going into Iraq (probably felt justified because Sadaam was reportedly responsible for the deaths of up to 300,000 Iraqis).