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Seriously... there's a difference between a made-up creature like Santa Claus and a batch of WMDs that *did exist at one time*, and has not ever been shown to be destroyed.
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And there is a difference between responding to the evidence cited in the article, which shows that most of the evidence cited by Powell as justification to go to war was based on bad intelligence or just plain made-up, and repeating the same tired old line over and over again.
Bush and company made up justification to go to war using whatever rumors they could grab, pressuring the intelligence community when necessary, and just making stuff up when they had to. The article above pretty much states that as a fact. Most of the rest of the UN agreed that Iraq was a threat that needed to be dealt with, but that a slower approach using a coalition of nations would work better and cause less distress to both the Iraqi citizens and the world.
Now, several months after the "end of hostilities", Iraq is a mess, soldiers are dying every day, electricity and water are still not restored, and the USA is spending a billion a week on a war that was billed as only taking a few months.
Bush lied, soldiers died. Maybe you don't think that fact is important, but I do. Clinton got roasted and nearly impeached for lying about a blowjob. Bush's lies got a lot of people killed. I expect Bush to get at least as much scrutiny in the press and from Congress as Clinton's blowjob.