Do I take it that when discussing what is "the question", you mean to disassociate yourself from the current screams of "Bush lied! there was no threat! he made it up about WMDs!" that are coming from the left?
Ah, that old devil, the left, rises again. Covers a host of stereotypes, to put it mildly, doesn't it. This kind of attack is a screen to cover the real issues which are the degree to which the Cheney-Bush folk politicized intelligence gathering and reporting, the degree to which they fail to take responsibility for using the flawed Niger report in the State of the Union address (and thus overcharacterized the threat from Iraq for their own political gain), for their failure to plan, apparently at all, at least seriously, for a post invasion Iraq. I could, as you might guess, go on.
The problem is not that the critics never saw Iraq as a problem. The problem is that the Bush folk used the wmd argument as an imminent threat to get public support, to get the Senate to vote in favor of the resolution, and it's now clear that it was not an imminent threat. That's enormously different from saying critics say Saddam never had or did not have wmd. |
