Well here's the core bug in your effing so-called rationale, Turhey: a lot of people with access to only a partial amopunt of the intel Bush had saw plainly there were no WMDs and understood Hussein to be what he was, a bloviating maniac who was, at bottom, a frightened blusterer. Some of us remembered his proposition about the "Mother of All Battles" and understood that his talk of missiles and weapons was comparable bullshit.   

These people called BS on the proposition of the Iraq war while Bush was busy implementing his Downing Street secret meetings, and massing troops on the Kuwaiti border. He chose to "Respectfully disagree" with those who saw plainly the horror he was dragging his nation into.

I think SPaw's take on it, while impassioned, is a lot closer to the truth of the matter, for all your realpolitik bluster, than yours.

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