Saddam and his sons are/were the weapons of mass destruction. Tyranny over 22,219,289 + people, torturing and killing any who disagree with the regime seems pretty destructive to me and it was done to the masses. Any more discoveries of WMD will seem pretty tame compared to those three.Very nice word smithing but irrelevant. The facts are that this war appears to have been without justification. Each day that goes by without finding any substantiation of the WMDs just makes it more likely that there never were any. It is soon time for Congress to launch an investigation to determine who screwed up or who lied. The people need to know and they need to know well before the next election. And everyone please remember that 9/11 is not a justification for this war since the perpetrators are not the people we attacked, despite all the confounding propaganda that has been strewn about.
Whether it was propaganda coupled with ‘facts’ streaming out of Iraq, we’ll never know. It was all too convincing; perhaps crying wolf so loudly and so often was a cry for help from some of the oppressed. What is obvious to me is – this is an Iraqi problem – not an American problem, we were not the perpetrators of the war on America, however some in this thread seem to think so. The jihad does not just emanate from Afghanistan, the blood money comes from all Arab nations; Saddam’s WMD comes in many guises. Political winds blow hot and cold over the years; Don Rumsfeld is one of a few courageous men of the times. Rather than throw brickbats, I salute him.
No one screwed up; this war and all that lead up to it is more complex, a labyrinthine of enormous proportions that travel back to years of ebbing and flowing politics where not all solutions are useful – this one was.