[prairiebreeze]

Wow, does that mean you feel betrayed only by the Bush administration, or do you also feel betrayed by Clinton, Britain, Israel, France, Germany, Russia and the UN?

I guess if WMD was the only reason that I used as justification for the war, I might feel betrayed (which I don't BTW). But I think in all fairness I'd have to at least admit to the years of those entities believing in the same supposedly flawed intel. Personal emphasis on "supposedly".

WMD became a central issue in the war justification because that's the issue that Blair could best use for joining the coalition. The UN didn't sanction Saddam about human rights violations or mass murder, only WMD. Which is a sad commentary on our world but that's another topic.

Prairie

[Huck]

I think they oversold the WMD, and undersold the "liberation." If the main reason for war had been liberation of Iraqis, I'd have opposed it outright. Now it's their best argument.