So - You can't just dismiss former presidents remarks like Carter's, suggests GUEST, 23 Mar 04 - 08:04 AM.

Damn right you can if what he states is absolute bullshit.

Point Number 1:
"That was a war based on lies and misinterpretations from London and Washington, claiming falsely that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11,

Guest, or Jimmy Carter, please provide evidence that Bush, or Blair, EVER stated that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11.

Point Number 2:
"claiming falsely that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction,"

At the time the world and his dog fully believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, having been told so by UNSCOM and the Iraqi's themselves, please do not forget that.

Point Number 3:
Carter said Bush and Blair "probably knew that many of the allegations were based on uncertain intelligence."

In any given situation you run with what intelligence you have. Intelligence is rarely, if ever, "certain"; 100% reliable; 100% verifiable. Just because it may happen to be "uncertain" does not mean that you disregard, or ignore it. If you would, then you would be the biggest fool in creation.

Oddly enough it was under Carter's stewardship, that the biggest blow to US intelligence was struck - from within. The policy decision to abandon efforts to improve and develope human-intel links on the ground in favour of technological-intel, was accepted and adopted by the Carter administration. That decision once made meant that in quite a large chunk of this planet the intelligence agencies of the United States of America went blind, deaf and mute.