JaTo: further to your many quotes which you undoubtedly attribute correctly.
Assuming that the assertions made about Iraqi WMD by the various authors of your quotes are all true (many are debatable, I think) then the undisputed outcome of the military exercise in Iraq IMO must be considered a massive failure - either with respect to the intelligence upon which the original decision to launch was made, or with respect to the actual execution of the invasion plan.
Because if the object of the invasion was in fact to render the Iraqi WMD harmless, the fact that to date none have been found and are now likely in someone else's possession, is the exact opposite of the desired outcome - and by definition the military exercise is a failure.
IMO, the true purpose of the invasion was, to quote John Kerry here (ironically) " ... to disarm Saddam Hussein" - which is distincyly different than rendering his WMD harmless.
IMO "disarming Saddam Hussein" is nothing more than a thinly veiled euphemism for "regime change" and therefore the principle of imminent danger as rationale for invading a sovereign country, did not apply.
The subsequent disclosures about the content and "value" of the intelligence accumulated prior to the invasion; and the undisputed facts about what has subsequently been discovered about Iraqi WMD IMO fully support this position.
