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Donut, I'm not going to go and re-hash for the ump-teenth time how it was perfectly reasonable for us to believe the Iraq had WMD. I guess the three biggest points are:
1. Iraq had USED WMD
2. The UN SAID Iraq had WMD and ordered them to DISARM
3. Iraq offered NO PROOF of ever disarming.
To the extend some intelligence info was imperfect, such is the nature of life. I am asked to analyze imperfect historical evidence regarding environmental conditions and advise clients on multi-million dollar decisions. The President, CIA, FBI, etc. are asked to analyze imperfect information and make decisions regarding national defense and war. It's their job.
That is why singling out a few rays of imperfect information among a thousand points of light IS making a mountain out of a molehill.
Now, whether the very real concern that Iraq had WMD was a justifiable singular basis for going to war, that is ANOTHER SEPARATE issue. I wish all issues (including Saddam's abuse of his people and refusal to cooperate with UN directives he agreed to) with Iraq had of been given equal attention by our leaders, and I wish they had not made the WMD issue a sole basis for going.
However, they were not wrong to suspect Iraq likely had WMD. Because it was VERY likely he did.
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