'just that anyone who says they were mislead by this particular claim has no one to blame for it but themselves. It didn't happen.'

great, its the fault of the average joe blow, who bought all the propaganda like the uraninum cakes from Niger that BUsh famously included in those 16words in the state of the union which that turned out to be false (and which resulted in someone from the white house
exposing a cia agent who just happened to be the wife of the ambassador that exposed the uranium story)


- oh wait, its the fault of the intelligence community,
lets cut the crap - from day one bush and the neocons (wolfowitz, pearl and cheney wanted Saddam out) That fact has been attested to by dick Clark, O'Neill and was no secret to anyone watching the run up to the war - after the Iraqis pretty much gave in to all the inspections then the US said they wanted regime change anyway.

I for one supported the war. NOt because I bought the line about WMDs but out of humanitarian reasons, that the Iraqi may be better off
although ultimately that depends on the final cost.

lets face it though, whether Rumsfeld lied or exaggerated the imminent threat, or not (although in the UK they made a big fuss about 45min weapons system) they spun the facts and took advantage of the shock of 911. GOEBBELS said a lie repeated 50 times becomes the truth (heck Churchill said something similar) when surveys by National Geographic show that 80% of young americans 18-24 cant find Iraq on the map, and 20% cant find the US on the map, one can hardly be surprised its so easy to pull the wool over their eyes.