Larry,

I didn't say in particular that Bush was lying about the WMDs.
I do believe that the administration played up the fear of them. I also think its interesting that they chose to believe the Clinton administration about them but pretty much dismissed everything else.
The reason I have no problem with that particular claim is that we gave them to him and trained him on how to use them. And warheads that can be used for that application is a bit different than stockpiles of WMDs. I have plenty of items throughout my house that could be used in such a manner.

Imminent threat to me means incoming in so many minutes. I am quite aware of the type of destruction that can be caused by plagues or other biologicals but so far there are more people dead from SARS and West Nile Virus than there has been from any of Saddam's stockpile (without counting the Kurds and others that he used the stuff on). The way it was postulated was that we should act before there was a mushroom cloud hanging over the US. I find this claim to be dubious and given that I am in the first response business the only difference in a terrorist attack and an accident is intent. We have had far more accidents than terrorist attacks and there is little money flowing into the responders pockets even though they will be needed to stabalize the situation and prevent its spread as well as rescuing and treating survivors and make no bones about it there is absolutely no way that invading Iraq could stop any of this type of attack.

Funny that we should find Al Quaida troops in Iraq, I mean it only borders on Afghanistan and its the easiest place to take potshots at US troops. There are also Saudis, Pakistanis, Palestinians and I would venture quite a few Iranians by now as well. Rumsfeld also met with Saddam Hussein, does that mean we support terror.

Al Quaida attacked Spain because Spain supported us in our invasion (one of the few nations that did) and has troops in Iraq. One of the major reasons for the al quaida movement was US troops in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. They are also going to go after those who are not expecting to get hit. By the way the name Al Quaida essentially means "the base". It is not so much of an organization as it is a bunch of cells that believe in the same thing. These cells are spread worldwide. Its too bad we didn't find the camps and Al Quaida operatives in this country instead of Iraq, but according to insiders the administration was too busy planning an invasion of Iraq prior to 9/11 and had dismissed warnings about Al Quaida. By the way, the terrorists who took the planes were almost all Saudis. ANd we all know that when Saudis are involved you need to invade Iraq!