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"um I hate to rain on the Bush-bashing parade, but everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, thought he had WMD at the time. Including his own generals, Iran, and Europe. We can argue about whether it was right to go to war even if he had had them, but to claim that it was wrong to go to war because in fact there were no WMD is using our hindsight 20/20 vision." -- rocket999
That is not true. It is the opposite of true. To recapture the mood back then, simply recall The Daily Show on the eve of the invasion and John Stewart pointing out that the only way to stop Bush-Cheney's splendid little war was for Saddam to quickly acquire some WMD over the weekend so that he could then surrender them before the U.S. deadline.
Many of us actually listened to Powell's presentation at the U.N. on 02/05/2003 and saw that the Bush-Cheney case for war amounted to nothing. (We've since learned it was a complete fraud, as well.) Those naive souls who in March 2003 "also believed there were WMD" did so because they made the mistake of trusting Junior Bush.
