Bob Jr, I have the same suspicious thoughts.

I may think that Bush's motives on this issue are self-serving, twisted and murderous and the probable outcome of his actions is far worse than the current "threat" --

BUT also I think that Bush & Co. are unaware of their... tainted judgement... in this area. If it weren't for the amount of sugar-coating and rationizing they were trying to put up this would-be war, they would have just trumped up some fake evidence on Saddam's links to al Q'aida. It isn't like it hasn't happened before.

The fact that they haven't done this (yet) suggests to me that they really think they are doing the "right" thing. And any good ol' unilaterist like Dubya is unlikely to take the opinions of the rest of the world seriously, or, apparently, the wide majority of American opinion.