[PISANO]

The WHOLE WORLD believed that SH had WMD. It is only the marxists in this country that would charge GW with LYING about what the ENTIRE WORLD and UN knew to be true. There are PICTURES of IRAQI'S and IRANIANS who were KILLED by IRAQ'S WMD. This question is as ludicrous as Hillary's SHOCK and DISMAY at the Slick One's infidelity.

[leftiesareloonie]

I do not think the who world believed that SH was an imminent and growing threat to the US or even its neighbors.

SH had decided pretty much to open Iraq up to the inspectors.

The French, Russians kept saying that the was no solid evidence that Iraq had continued WMD programs, if you recall some of their statements before the war.

It is not exactly right to say that Bush was lying. He BELIEVED what he said. He did however misrepresent a mere BELIEF, a mere GUESS, really, as something more than that -- as CERTAINTY or KNOWLEDGE.

Is that a LIE? I'm not sure. But it's less than fully honest. It's OBVIOUS that they didn't KNOW with CERTAINTY that SH had WMD. So certainly, they didn't KNOW that SH was a "grave and gathering" danger to the US, as Bush used to put it. That part probably was utterly dishonest, in a sense, a public pretext for a war Bush wanted for other, not necessarily illegitimate reasons.

Never trust any politician ever, not even one that's on your side. Don't believe that they really respect you or represent you. They have their own agendas always. You are just there to be stage-managed into following along with the program.