Make no mistake, PDQ: no-one here argues that the ultimate removal of the Hussein clan was not a good thing.

That does not justify the wanton deployment of warfaring machinery.

Tenet notwithstanding, it is clear to the world now that Hussein, by his own confessions, was being evasive and duplicitous out of a fear of Iran, not because he was actually hiding WMDs, and a little more intelligent analysis would have made that clear. The poath to war may not be altered in retrospect as an inevitable one when in fact it was falsely painted, rushed, promoted and pushed in every way the demented minds of Rove and company could come up with.l; Tenet was bludgeoned.

Hussein's death toll was unforgiveable and monstrous and I am glad he is gone from power, and even from life. To use that retroactively as a justification for an insensate, inhumane, politically dull-witted and ethically inexcusaBLE war undertaken in profound ignorance of the real dynamics of th land, is inexcusably disingenuous.


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