Gervase in 2002 all detail relating to what WMD Iraq could possibly have was taken from the UNSCOM reports to the UN Security Council. A report that Scott Ritter and a certain Dr. Hans Blix helped compile, I believe IIRC that they even actually signed it. So if anything was drip fed to the media it was information from the UN.

On the "Gulf of Tonkin" thing Gervase you have not yet shown me that one single thing I said so far is false or untrue. If you must resort to "sort of like" you've got to be scrambling.

Iraq a mistake - Hell no.