As P.T. Barnum said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool most of the people most of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" (or maybe that was Bob Dylan, I forget sometimes).
My "convoluted thinking" is just evidence that I'm not most of the people most of the time. And I absolutely do not like being fooled (lied to) any of the time.
All I want to do is see some of this HUGE QUANTITY of weapons Bush absolutely assured us Saddam had. That's all I'm asking. I don't think that's an unreasonable request, since it's what led me to support him and what I was led to believe I would get to justify supporting the War.
Since we knew it was produced, where did it go? That has always been the question. If Saddam couldn't provide proof of the destruction of the known quantities, since we had proof that further "duel use" chemicals and production equipment was, in fact, shipped to Iraq, and since Iraq couldn't produce either records of how it was used or where it was, the only logical conclusion was it was continuing to be produced.
We got all over the intelligence agencies because they failed to look at the worst case scenerio regarding 9-11, and now you are getting mad because they looked at the worst case on the WMD's. Would you rather we risk a couple million people before doing anything?
Either the weapons are still there, or Saddam had a death wish.
The Media played that up very well!
The UN said he had large quantities at one time, we asked Saddam to PROVE he had destroyed them, and he DID NOT!
All right, let's see if you are true to your word.