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Excuses, excuses, excuses! History will not look kindly on an administration that did not know whether there were WMD's. Whether there was intentional lying or distortion to lead the people to war will come out in the future. Either way, incompetence or lying will not be a valid excuse for the killing and destruction. War is a serious matter as we should have learned in previous wars.

In defense of country, war is entirely justified. False pretenses or ignorance are not jusification. When war is sought, a person should be held to truth, not manipulation. We support our troops to be engaged in a meaningful matter based on the truth and defense of country. We don't expect them to die in a conflict engineered by someone's active imagination.

Bottom line is that Saddam even admitted to having WMD's he just said they were all destroyed but for some strange reason he wouldn't let the UN verify it. I wonder why? Those of you trying to say there were no WMDs in Iraq must not believe your lying eyes. The only question that was left to be answered was did he destroy them or not. You say he did and President Bush says he didn't. Who should I believe? Worst case to me is he destroyed them just prior to the invasion. If this is the case then the invasion is justified. If we find even ONE WMD then this invasion is justified. If we find credible evidence he had an operational WMD production capacity then this invasion is justified.

There is not a single shred of evidence that anyone lied about or misrepresented the WMD threat prior to the war. To the contrary, every nation on the UN Security Counsel -- including France, Germany, and Russia -- agreed that the threat existed. The disagreement was what to do about the threat. Saddam's continued refusals to cooperate fully and proactively with UN inspectors only exacerbated the concern that he had these weapons and was hiding them. Had he destroyed them years ago, as you apparently now claim, it would have been the easiest thing in the world for him to say so at the time and in the manner that Resolution 1441 presecribed.

It is still too soon to say that we won't find any WMDs, which in all likelihood were either destroyed or very well hidden just before the start of the war -- in both cases, you cannot destroy or hide what you weren't even supposed to have in the first place. It isn't too early to say, however, that we have destroyed the capacity of his government (directly or through terrorists) to use such weapons against us. That's a very good thing.