Your sense of recent history is really confused. Since you don't
seem to remember ... We haggle with the UN for months on end to comply
with their own resolutions to no avail. Bush gave a deadline to Saddam
and the UN and nothing was done.

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Really?

Think back to December 2002. You may recall a deadline by which we
demanded that Saddam Hussein account for the disposition of all the
WMD's that we knew he, at one time or another, had in Iraq. Iraq met
that deadline, delivering something like 17 volumes of printed material
and some extensive computer files to the United Nations. A matter of
hours later, George Bush was already dismissing the 17 volumes as "all
lies".

Think back a bit further to September 12, 2001. Bush calls his cabinet
together and asks, "What evidence can we find that Iraq was involved in
these attacks?" One of his top security advisors said, "Mr. President,
there is no evidence that Iraq was involved in any way at all." Bush's
response: "Wrong answer."

We were destined to go to war with Iraq beginning on the first day of
Bush II's regime. When we couldn't find a good excuse, we invented one.