Geoduck--
Congratulations on the amount of labour you have put into your "time-line" [above]. Having said that, I would like to register my opinion that it hardly stands well against all the other litanies of deception that have been thrown at the gullible over recent years. The items of truth which crept in here and there were included only because they happened to give an appearance of credibility to the aim of the writer [not all your stuff, but you must take responsibility for repeating it], this aim being to convince the aforementioned gullible that Iraq DID have "weapons of mass destruction" when GW. gallantly sent his teenagers and young men and women to fight the good fight for the oil barons and their backers. Most of those who profess to still believe in those elusive weapons are well aware that they are trying to give credence to a lie; they have some kind of perverse loyalty to the cretins in high places who used to peddle it as justification for their actions. Not nowadays---it was always about "Iraqi freedom", don't y'know?