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No, he supported it until two things became clear to him: 1) there never was any WMD threat that was serious enough to warrant a U.S. invasion; and 2) the administration's efforts in waging the war revealed an utter lack of competence in preparing for the occupation of Iraq.

In fact, now that I think about Point #2 . . . I believe he made this comment somewhere around the first anniversary of President Bush's idiotic performance on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

No, he supported it until two things became clear to him: 1) there never was any WMD threat that was serious enough to warrant a U.S. invasion;

That is an idiotic rationalization. The only reason he knows for sure that there have been no WMD found in large quantities is that we invaded in the first place. Had we not invaded we would STILL be dealing with the pre-war intelligence that stated he had them. As to post occupation woes, NO one said it was going to be a damned cake walk and the moment the first sign of an insurgency cropped up the Democrats and Media IMMEDIATELY started with the Quagmire crap and the more they pushed it the harder the insurgents fought to make it so.

1) there never was any WMD threat that was serious enough to warrant a U.S. invasion

Has it all gone into the burn bag?

God Almighty. The run up to the war was off the concensus - U. fu**n Nations decrees and all that...

All about enforcement of said decrees.

Give me a break.

Where is Maggie when we need her?

In fact, now that I think about Point #2 . . . I believe he made this comment somewhere around the first anniversary of President Bush's idiotic performance on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

Now this is just plain silly. Are you *really* ready to pronounce that Iraq would never have been a threat to the U.S. vis-a-vis WMD??? If you are really making that statement then I guess we have little to discuss because it would appear that we live on different planets.

Now... with regard to the actual planning for the war... if taking down a whole country in three weeks with the fewest casualties on *both* sides that has ever occurred in the history of warfare isn't good enough for you... then maybe you need to adjust your powerpoint slides a little. Perhaps then, you could point me to a military campaign in the history of the world that has accomplished more in less time with fewer casualties?

"1) there never was any WMD threat that was serious enough to warrant a U.S. invasion"

Yep, your right. Better to wait until he killed 5,000 or 10,000 Americans before we acted. Did you forget that saddam pays terrorist homicide bombers in Israel? Did you forget his plot to kill our President? Did you forget his gassing the Kurds? Dipping people in acid? Lowering them into meat grinders slowly to torture them as he and his minions watched? Mass graves? The list of atrocities goes on and on.
Do you believe saddam would not have become a more serious problem in future years? Fortunately we will not have to wait to see if you were right. You can claim that the war was wrong in the security of knowing your plan will never be tested.
And back to your claim about support for the war (WWII). There was not support for the war until after Pearl Harbor, despite the fact the millions of Jews were being murdered by the nazis. The media of the day gave little coverage of the extermination of the Jews. WHY? Many argued as you that Hitler was not a threat to the U.S. Imagine what the world would be like if we had intervened early. How many lives would have been saved. Sounds like we took your advice in that war. What a shame.

As long as someone as insane as Saddam had one cannister of sarin gas that was enough WMD to justify us from removing him. You don't wait for them to come to us to kill our innocents. Was 3,000 deaths not enough? The amount of sarin we have found thus far could kill millions. Sorry but I am sick to death about this not enough WMD to justify war. 9/11 was enough. Iraq harbored terrorists. Iraq was shooting in the no fly zone. Iraq paid families of suicide bombers. Does any of this register?'