Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>If there is one thing the international community agrees on is that there were/are WMD in Iraq and that terrorists should not have access to them.<<<

I don't think that's the big issue in terms of agreeing/disagreeing. What most were and still are asking is whether the threat from Iraq was so grave and so imminent that a massive war was the only solution. If Bush's and Rumsfeld's pre-war bluster would have been believed, Iraq was a formidable military force ripe with WMD charged missiles ready to launch at a moment's notice, weapon producing nuclear facilities and warehouses and tanker trucks filled with enough anthrax and smallpox germs to end life on earth as we know it. Instead, we ended up fighting men in sandals firing russian rifles, and to date, I'm not aware of one single WMD related discovery in Iraq. So the question is not whether Iraq ever had WMD's, but whether our own government grossly exaggerated the threat to justify a war they obviously wanted to fight in a bad way.