Gareth - hmmm. (To quote your favourite word.) What you boast about, or don't, has nothing to do with it. And what's so special about Saddam using chemical weapons against his enemies? What was the US doing in Vietnam?

Teribus, could you enlarge on that observation you made near the top: Iraq's support for foreign terrorist groups is known and maybe give one or two sources? (I notice you're still prepared to rely on the BBC when it suits your argument.) And while you're on the subject, could you explain why 9/11 would give the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cause to re-evaluate the relationship with Iraq? Any Al Qaeda activity in Iraq would seem to have come after (and no doubt because of) the US invasion. Saddam and Bin Laden were not exactly buddies, for fairly obvious reasons.