That makes it right?! Pretty much the whole country was in agreement with s***ery for 200 years, so that must have been right as well. The premise for going to war in Iraq was the WMD's - which they failed to find until years later and then only fragments and trace elements - so the initial premise was WRONG - whether everyone agreed with it or not.

Going in after the fact to try and justify what you've already done, is a very lame exercise in futility. What's done is done, so it only remains to try and undo what can be undone - not continue to try and justify the unjustifiable.

Hi Tas,

I will concede a point to you on the Syria move..

As for the yellow cake, I have read many conflicting reports on it being found or not existing.. I any case, if it was in place, it was not processed and not part of any WMD...
We can go back and forth about what was found and not found, but the fact is that none were found in operational condition. All that were found were traced back to US design during the Reagan administration.
Now that I think about, Yellow cake was that not the issue with the f email CIA agent who was outed? She contradicted the Bush/chany statement and that was the end of her career.. Valery someone ??

As an aside, when Bush Jr. was elected I told one of my coffee buddies that we would be going to war with Iraq... I was right, but did not have the reason correct.. I was thinking revenge. Saddam put a price on Bush the first head... What a fool thing to do..

To be clear... I do not believe that Bush and co believed WMD in operational form existed.. And yet they lied and called it a fact.. NO it was not...

Oh, the delay while feuding with congress.... Someone has said that is what makes a Democracy so difficult, a Dictator could simply say the word and go...

What makes it right is that it was the right thing to do given the information at hand. WMDs were a major reason why we went to war. The fact remains that the only way we found out that he didn't have stockpiles was by going to war.

How much happier would you be if Saddam was still threatening to use WMD's on America and our allies, still funding terrorism, still ignoring the UN mandates, still murdering gays, still using rape-rooms to get information, and still shooting at American aircraft? Would you be much happier or just slightly happier?

Not true again. They US Navy Mobile Ordinance Disposal Unit is still there and as stated before, what they are still finding is very usable. Further is was damned sure in tip top shape during the war and in some ways a blessing Saddam did not use much of what he had on hand.

As many always depend on media sources (or the lack of any honest source) the media has in fact NOT been allowed to be given any updated information as to the deployment of the Navy Mobile Unit nor it's work product. The Navy has more than one time made release statements available, but the Obama Admin has shut down any news release of the findings.

tomh... THIS I DO KNOW (because I Researched it BEFORE POSTING THIS REPLY)

VP Cheney was only restating what had been debated during Pres Clinton's Administration...
snopes.com posted:

On 17 February 1998, President Clinton delivered a speech at the Pentagon. Excerpts from that speech include the following comments:

The UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq still has stockpiles of chemical and biological munitions, a small force of Scud-type missiles, and the capacity to restart quickly its production program and build many, many more weapons.

In 1998, the Bless-ed "UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMISSION" (that's what UNSCOM stands for) INSPECTORS thought Iraq had WMD...

It is a FACT that Iraq having WMD did NOT START with VP Cheney... Or the Bush Administration... Before Besmirching ANYONE make certain YOU HAVE YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT...