[Mariner]

"They intended and did ignore all contrary evidence because it didn’t support going into a war they had already decided to pursue. This according to their top intelligence guy."

Most certainly.

If Israeli intelligence had pics of the truck moving WMD from Iraq to Syria, would not the most sophisticated surveillance in the world not have also picked it up? We had that entire region under a spotlight 7x24.

Saddam HAD WMD, but moved them to Syria before the war. The US knew that and zapped Iraq anyway. And the same mindset permeates the Republican party today with it's full support for the removal of Egyptian, Libyan and Syrian regimes. It's even endemic to the Democrats.

[cloudmountain]

The Arabs have been battling each other over land, money, water, power, women and honor since there HAVE been Arabs in the world.
Sticking our unwanted and unwelcome noses into the Arab world is asking for trouble, right here in River City.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Saddam HAD WMD, but moved them to Syria before the war. “

We have evidence that trucks drove to the border, but no evidence of nukes as they claimed. For all we know, it was Sadam’s moving van of valuable things to set up a headquarters in exile.