NO. 1 RESPONSIBILITY OF A PRESIDENT IS SECURITY, R. PAUL HASN'T A CLUE

[mudslinger]

You are right hooty you dumbshit through your own admission, intelligence doesn't vary from President to President, that is why Bush used the intelligence gathered by the Clinton Administration, boy are you ever a stupid person.

[hoosier_daddy]

we didn't sell any wmds to iraq, dumbfuck.  and neither did russia.  of course hussein had chemical weapons, he used them against the iranians and the kurds in the 80's when reagan was president and hussein was our number one buddy in the region.  chemical weapons are really nothing more than bug spray, only times 100.  any country can make it, if they want to break international law and risk sanctions.  and chemical weapons are not really any more lethal than conventional weapons, but they are banned because they cause such gruesome and painful deaths, not because they are so effective.  but chemical weapons manfuctured in the 80's and maybe early 90's would not be viable a decade later.  it would be more dangerous for those trying to use them than for the enemy.  what part of that don't you understand?  ten year old caches of chemical weapons are not weaponized, they are just dangerous to whoever is around them.  and he never had biological weapons to any weaponized state, even we do not have that capacity right now.  and we know he did not have nuclear programs because that creates isotopes that are released into the atmosphere and can be detected....the whole idea that hussein was so dangerous that only an all out invasion and occupation could stop him is totally preposterous.  he was not any more dangerous than milosevic, and clinton took him out and put him on trial before the world court WITHOUT LOSING ONE SOLDIER IN COMBAT....

[Oz]

Somehow you keep ignoring the FACTS that Scott Ritter and UNSCOM,  El Bardi and the IAEA and Hanx Blix and UNMOVIC had all inspected Iraq and said, loud and clear, there were NO WMD.
 
The IAEA had inspected every 6 months, just like they do anyplace that has nuclear materials, to keep it safe, and certified Iraq had NO NUKES. (No "mushroom clouds.")
 
NO WMD before the war.  None.
 
And in 2001, Condoleeza Rice and General Colin Powell said Iraq had NO WMD and WAS NOT A THREAT:
 
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gries/howbushoperates/powell-no-wmd.htm