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Certainly Don is entitled to his thoughts and opinions on the war, as well as his desire to express those opinions. What kills me though is that so often the "Bush lied" line is used in reference to WMD when, in fact, the whole freakin' world believed Saddam had them and there is no denying that he used them not all that long ago. There is also a ton of evidence, as published in the final findings about WMDs in Iraq, that his obvious long term goal was to once again secure them, in quantity, and develop more domestically and ultimately put them to use. There simply is no denying that. I do not believe for a second that Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq, he was just as misinformed as Clinton et al regarding their existance. Congress would not have been so quick to approve the war - almost unanimously - had they not believed what they had been told for years.

What bothers me is that Bush did not just come out and say what the real objective was - to get rid of Saddam once and for all before he managed to obtain WMDs that would have allowed him to succeed in his goals. I don't have a problem with the war in Iraq being a preemptive move to oust not only a dictator, but one with designs on disrupting the global economy. Not a problem at all. His motives were clear and well documented. But to simply call it a war for oil is to be very shortsighted indeed.