The only people "re-branding" the war effort are demoracts. The president gave many, many reasons to congress, and the U.N. Kerry and Edwards saw the same evidence and agreed, Saddam was a threat. If their argument is that they were "mislead" or "lied to", I suppose the President can make the same case for himself. But, to now say they only authorized the "threat of war" is an absolute cop-out.

The truth is, while the administration was attempting to satisfy those who would never endorse the war, Saddam had all the time in the world to export his arms. As a result, they are now very likely available to terrorists; because of the long and unsuccessful diplomacy battle.

It was the right war, a little bit past the right time, at exactly the right place.

Why is it that when the question of Iraq comes up, the case is made for war against Iran, North Korea, or in Sudan? Does any one against the Iraq war actually endorse a war anywhere else? These inflammatory hypotheticals aggrevate a situation that could result in world war, or the use of "nuke-u-lar" weapons. One step at a time. We have seen the effect of Clinton's "containment" strategy on Saddam, Al Qaeda, and North Korea. All failures.

President Bush has actually made strong arguments for Iraq being a component of the larger war on terror, and in sending a message to Islamist radicals in the Middle East. The democrats just aren't listening- all he does is lie, right? SO, why listen to what your President has to say.
They haven't gotten over the "No Blood for Oil" thing either. I haven't seen much of our focus on oil. I have seen a lot of focus on security, elections, schools, hospitals, infrastructure. Isn't it REALLY the Russians and the French holding all the oil vouchers?

The world has plenty of evil bastards running countries, including one who has built real, not fantasy WMD's which threaten the West Coast at this very moment. All while Bush obsessed over Saddam.

Funny how we just had to take out the evil bastard who was sitting atop an ocean of oil.

Unfortunately, the Commander in Chief does not have the luxury of waiting to see how things will pan out. Kerry scares the hell out of me. If he is elected, I will be traveling to Washington to do some medal-throwing of my own...

I suppose his solution "knowing what we know now" would have been to wait to go to war, and continue to finance terrorism and Saddam's torture chambers, with U.S. (oil-for-food) currency. Why hasn't anybody called him on this?

...And what about building the coalition? Does anybody believe that countries implicated in the U.N. ripoff, countries raking in money by violating sanctions, and profitting from Iraqi oil, would have ever supported the war, even if Saddam was proven to have stockpiles of WMD?

Iraq was a mistake. Trying to justify it as a noble cause, after the fact, is pathetic.

Bush rushed to war when anyone could see that the sanctions were working. Everyone agreed before Bush started his propaganda campaign that Iraq was not a threat. Colin Powell, Condi Rice, everybody said that Saddam was contained.

I was willing to listen, although with a great deal of scepticism, cause Bush was so fervent about it. Now it looks like he just out and out lied. HE LIED.

There were plenty of credible people who had doubts about those WMD. Bush said there were none. HE LIED.

And he was, of course, supposed to ignore the legal problem presented by the fact that Saddam (WMDs or no) was flouting the terms of the agreement that ended the first Gulf War, and somehow figure out a way to make sanctions and inspections work (when they never had, not for a dozen years).

And notwithstanding the fact that thousands of Americans died in 2001 because we "knew" terrorists wouldn't ever do us serious harm, he was supposed to err on the side of risk-taking rather than caution.

Ken would have done better. If only Ken had been in the White House then, he would have kept us safe on the cheap.

It seems so long ago.

Hey, stop using my tax dollars, my Country, and my public officials to circumvent Democracy...*chuckle*

I suppose I wouldn't mind as much if it weren't my taxes, my military, my country doing all the fighting and dying for your noble cause. But since it is, in the future, please try to undertake your noble causes on your own dime. Thanks.