[Cael]

Bush didn't need the SOTU address to make a case for war. He did need it to let Saddam and other countries know he was dead serious. Bush had already made his case for war back when Congress voted to give him that authority-- twice. I wish you folks would stop reinventing history. Whoa whoa whoa. So what you are saying is that the SOTU address was meant only for the ears of Saddam and the international community? It sounds like you are the one who is reinventing history. I'm not going to pretend I can recite SOTU addresses by memory, but I'm sure that in most of them, presidents mention initiatives that are already in motion, so they can let the people know what is going on and that is, according to the president, positive.

[Darksheare]

Do you even know what you are talking about?
The UN AWAAAAAYS back after desert storm said that Iraq shouldn't have chem, bio, or nuke materials of ANY kind whatsoever.
And they had inspectors in country to check for compliance.
Iraq kicked the inspectors out, and there are several tons of chemical weapons MISSING that WERE accounted for back when the inspectors left.
They'd left monitoring equipment in place in the warehouse WITH the weapons.
Blix and boys came back, and guess what?
The equipment AND weapons were MISSING.
Well, gee?
What does THAT mean?
You're a bright boy, you figure it out.

Besides, having the centrifuge or ANY weapons development technology is against UN resolutions.
Resolutions that the UN failed to enforce.
How about actually reading history?

[VRWC_minion]

So what you are saying is that the SOTU address was meant only for the ears of Saddam and the international community?

If Bush already had the authority and backing to go to war in Iraq, why would he need to sell it again? No good salesmen ever keeps selling after someone said yes. The US already said yes.

If you want to make the case that the SOU address was designed to get support for the war from the American people then please tell me how the vote turned out that must have happened after the address ? I don't recall voting, do you ? I also don't recall congress voting do you ?

So, if the purpose of the SOU address was to make a case for war, who was Bush making the case to and what was the result ? surely, you can provide the times and places of the votes that followed.