[William McKinley]

I am afraid that W chose very poorly

And now we are off onto a very different topic, which is 'was the war effort wise?' That will become evident over time, which is how I will evaluate it. It is over, and no amount of caterwauling from the peacenicks will change it. We don't need to know if it was wise or not until the next time we are faced with the possibility of the same action. At that point, time will have passed, and the wisdom or foolishness of the endeavor will be more clear.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

The 2 are quite related.

It appears that our gov't decided to invade Iraq. Clearly there was a reason for that, else we would assume that we have a bunch of insane individuals at the top of the government.

Apparently, the 'reasons' for invading Iraq were not viewed as something the people accept and view as sufficient for supporting a war of aggression. Therefore, lower level operatives were asked to find some 'popular' reasons for an invasion. It happened to be WMD.

Now we, as a people, are in the process of paying for what those at the top of our government did on our behalf.

It will be important for these lies to be revealed to us so that future governments may not go on the same path for a while.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Oh, and those responsible for wasting $70 billion + of our money and the lives of our soldiers should be made to pay.