Wrong Teribus, I'm afraid, about Brother Cadfael (for a start).It's advisable to check the source before issuing a correction.

"It has never been the case that there was going to be an attack no matter what." It's a bit hard to see how a statement like that could be either proved or falsified. "No matter what" is such a wide ranging statement.

My own belief is that disarming Saddam of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" was essentially a pretext so far as Bush was concerned, and even if it had been complete it would have made no difference to his invasion plans, except insofar as it made them easier to carry out.