deadzone – The truth is somewhere in between what you and I said. Much of the world did in fact think he had WMDs, but even WMDs were not enough for them to support an invasion. They preferred more peaceful means, like inspections. Anyway, I think that if you asked the average guy like me, or even the average European, before the war if they had WMDs they would have said ‘yes’ or ‘probably.’
The interesting thing about my statements above is that they don’t require that you believe/believed Iraq didn’t have WMDs. There was a good case that they did in fact have them. I thought they did in 2003. It only requires that you accept the evidence that Bush’s team engaged in a hard sell, ignored intelligence and dissenters and perhaps lied on multiple occasions. After all, what exactly defines lying? Not telling the ‘whole’ truth should qualify in my book. I am certain that proof of this is forthcoming and might even result in the largest scandel to hit the Presidency in decades.
