[RusIvan]

My 2 cents.
For what they try to impeach pres Clinton? For he poped that girl? I guess not. For he lied about it.

Same way is this matter. War was reasonable but why lie about it? Why do propaganda, make misrepresentions, distort inellegence?
Why not to go forward and say it is just for prevention and progression of ME. Sadam is no danger now but he will if to lift UN sanctions.
It seems that pres Bush has very bad advisers. He rather fired them.

[Grampa Dave]

Naw he has good advisers, his enemies are the ones who need new advisers.

[katana]

If you read the actual statements made by the president and the whole adminstration during the year leading up to the war finding weapons of mass destruction was never the main justification. That is a bald faced lie by the president's political opponents and their cohorts in our press.

The explicit (to anyone who can read or listen) justification for going to war was just what you stated, that is we could not afford to wait until Saddam had nuclear weapons in hand because (like the answer Roosevelt got from his secretary when he asked her opinion of what Hitler would do if he had a bomb that could destry a city) he would use it!