To: mewzilla
Get with the program! You aren't properly learning freeper newspeak: "WMD was never the real reason for going to war. It was (fill in the blank)." You need to work harder on trying to rationalize and forget the past. Get with the program!
To: Austin Willard Wright
Our memories are so convenient, aren't they? The truth is, there was always a bigger geopolitical reason for this war than WMD. Nonetheless, WMD was used as a key selling point by the administration. (Remember Colin Powell's presentation to the UN?)
That's what seemed to be the most effective selling point at the time. If, WMD was a major problem in Iraq, there is already much evidence to prove it so. Perhaps we haven't heard it. But I find it doubtful we wouldn't have seen much more by now.
Let's face it. We were probably all duped to a degree to achieve a greater goal. When the stakes are high, political leaders have been known to do such things.
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