P.S. Rick– Does the spell check offer a preview function?

Please stop it; you are making too much sense. Here we had Saddam and his psychopathic sons running a country using internal security modeled on the East German secret police–a dictator inside a goodly sized country from which UN inspectors have been tossed and which hasn’t been searched in what, two years? This same individual, like all war-obsessed dictators, would never voluntarily disarm unless he would benefit greatly from so doing. Okay. He claims he destroyed all the weapons, but has evidence whatsoever of their disposal. I submit if Saddam wanted to rejoin the community of nations in some meaningful way, one of the first things he could do would be to get rid of his weapons in a very public way, inspectors present and everything. No. Instead, Saddam would have us believe he got rid of the stuff in secret. Does anyone in their right mind take his word on this?

Then we have the so-called “Downing Street Memo,” which is claimed to provide the ontological proof that Bush and Blair knew Saddam’s weapons didn’t exist. Once we enter this bizarre world, the whole desert charge of the 3ID in their suffocating chemical weapons suits must be explained away as a crypto-military plot concocted by the Bush Administration to keep from revealing THE SECRET! (Moonbat tip: Look up “Occam’s Razor.” It will help.)

Obviously there is a chasm between what the tinfoil hatters and the rest of America believes, but don’t these people have access to bookstores? I mean, the whole fricking world knew Iraq was a problem. It was discussed just days after 9/11, and it was known to be on Bush’s drawing board right after Kabul fell. Read Woodward’s book, Bush at War. Bush asks, “Okay, who’s next?”

One can disagree with the strategy of pre-emption, but this absurd notion that the WMD evidence was warped all out of proportion is only useful for those who didn’t bother to read http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2005/06/15/down-the-rabbit-hole-the-left-and-the-downing-street-memos/#comment-2665 Excellent review and analysis. I know the deranged left is foaming at the lips over this memo, but given the other facts contained in the memo, as well as the other findings by investigative committees you've listed above, there's just no way. I'm sorry. It just doesn't mean what they think it means. That won't stop Conyers and his ilk from shouting BUSH LIED! for the next 50 years or so, though. Excellent review and analysis. I know the deranged left is foaming at the lips over this memo, but given the other facts contained in the memo, as well as the other findings by investigative committees you’ve listed above, there’s just no way. I’m sorry. It just doesn’t mean what they think it means.