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WMD book tells sad story of willing dupes

Slowly, they inch us towards war with Iran, and even though most of us have finally realised the Iraq fiasco was not something they sold to us honestly, we're going to let them do it again. Enough about the war already, we say. Dancing with the Stars is on. Shh.
Anyway, on the afternoon before Dubya goes on tv to tell us that the neutralisation of Iran's nuclear weapons programme, whether it is real or just a chicken farm, has begun, I'm going to buy as much gasoline as I can store. It's not going to go well.

Okay NeoCons, here is one of your own beloved conservatives gently, but clearly throwing all your own nonsense back in your faces. Care to comment? Perhaps he is part of the "liberal press" that always gets blamed whenever anything remotely critical of the Bush gang appears in print.

Rush will be attacking George Wills tomorrow for writing facts about a ill conceived war.

It's an indisputable fact that Iraq had WMDs and had used them against the Kurds and the Iranians.

It's fun to monday morning quarterback the intelligence community and the administration, but let's be honest, who hasn't used this analysis at some point in their life or career?: 'past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.'

I know I have.

So maybe the administration got neoconned. Maybe it even neoconned itself as the book suggests.

But retrospect is a whole lot easier than foresight.

Neoconned, if you had read this book, you'd understand that the foresight was there. Tenet and the neocons in the White House chose to ignore the foresight others had. The foresight was there, but the desire to invade trumped the evidence. Read the book.

I understand the thinking above from Neoconned?, but must insist that the Bush folks KNEW there would be no WMD's. NBC reports that the CIA had an Iraqi government source so high as to know that sources like Curveball were bogus. No one trying to be correct could have been so completely wrong on the two dozen plus accusations made by Colin Powell to the UN, ALL of which turned out false. No one seeking the truth would have insisted that UN inspectors leave Iraq in order for us to attack it, as the Bush administration did. Their hubris probably convinced them that SOMETHING would be discovered that could have been called or linked to a WMD. Other than that, we're stuck with cooked books.