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Rekna - right on. Couldn't have been said more clearly. Before the war, I would talk with my dad (a repulblican) and I would tell him that the administration was deceiving the country and fearmongering to get us to go to war with Iraq. The UK was also using bad evidence and selling their country too. There were numerous examples from both sides that were, at the time to a skeptic like me, clearly bullshit.
A short list:
1. The speech in which the president told people we had to act before one of our cities went up in a mushroom cloud.
2. The Iraq-Nigerian uranium link
3. That Iraq had bought some aluminum tubes = they are making a nuclear missile
4. The "evidence" of Al-queda bases in Iraq that Colin Powell showed the UN - they were just fuzzy pictures of buildings from a satelite - and nothing ever came of this after the war.
5. When no weapons of mass destruction were found, we claimed some trailers that were not-sterile and had canvas walls were mobile biological weapon labs. Again, made some headlines, weeks later it is completely dropped. Spin, spin spin.
6. When the UK presented evidence, they majority of their report was plagerized from a college thesis some guy wrote in the 90's, and they modified various sentences to make it sound as if things were more dangerous.
7. When there was a much stronger Saudi Arabia link to Al queda and 911, we still went after Iraq, why?
8. Saddam was hardly a threat to the US and had little power to terrorize or attack the United States mainland.
These are just some of the things that if you just used common sense you would see were holes in the logic for going to war.
I want to see the president fall for deceiving the United States people and fearmongering.
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