there was never any question that saddam most likely had some wmd capability. that's not what we're discussing!
Originally posted by JaTo:
Yes, most turned out to be proven wrong or at best inconclusive
the al qaeda link was the most powerful point the bush admin had to persuade people that pre-emptive attack was necessary. that's what the whole thing was about in the post 9/11 atmosphere. why else would the two be tied together in pretty much every speech and every comment made on the case for war in iraq?
even so, the information we had back then pointed to the fact that the intelligence was likely wrong or inconclusive. and that was before we decided to present it to congress, UN, and the rest of america. you still haven't answered my question as to why the decision to use that info was made?
as i mentioned before, i think it's because the case for war without those links wouldn't have been supported by the points brought up by TDF.
Originally posted by JaTo:
2 years later, that warning light now seems to be the topic of fixation since the mountain that the "early warning system" hollered about was apparently mis-calibrated...
if you're going on a cross country trip and a warning light is flickering off and on a quarter of the way there, do you rush to your destination risking a disaster or do you stop to check everything out? what would your flight instructor do?
to me it looks like we rushed to the destination and ran smack dab into that elevated terrain your flight instructor was talking about. 
