This is the same thing as throwing the peasant girl in the river to see if she floats like a witch or drowns like a normal girl.

We didn't just make up the accusation about WMD out of whole cloth. Sometimes you talk like Saddam had had nothing to do with WMD until Bush started throwing accusations.

Saddam had a known and proven history of both desiring, manufacturing, and using WMD in the past. After the Gulf War, a proven nuclear weapons program was dismantled--one that had escaped the inspections. I find it amazingly naive to think that had he been left in power for another decade that he would have abandoned this goal entirely.

Your analogy might be a bit better had your peasant girl actually been roasting little children in her candy house years ago.

Besides, everyone knows the true test of a witch is to balance her on the scales with a duck.