Dixie - In Memoriam
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It's a serious point that became overshadowed by the wmd questions!
This is true, and I fault Bush (amazingly enough) for this. If there was any "error" or "mistake" by this administration, it was in investing so much stock and justification for the war, in WMD's. Before the war, I personally chronicled over 22 assorted connections between alQaeda (including Zarqawi) and the Saddam regime, and none of them have ever been refuted or proven inaccurate. If any reason were needed besides the general misconduct and defiance of Saddam, it should have been his connection to terrorism.
WMD stockpiles were never an issue, and were, in fact, non-starters, because chem/bio shelf-life would render any such stockpiles useless in a matter of a few months. It was the technology and ability to produce these weapons on a large scale, and the means in which to produce them on short notice, which was the potential real "threat" of falling into the hands of the terrorists.