I don't have to. I make no claims about WMD existing in Iraq at any point. That I deny they exist now, and that I alledge that claims concerning their existence are either incomptence or fraud does not mean I have to provide a full accounting for their existence or their history- I didn't start a war over their existence, you and yours did. So you go do the math and accounting- I don't give a flying f. You are saying we had the right to kill people, not me.

If you say they don't exist now, yet by many different accounts they did as few as a couple of years ago, the scenario that Saddam either destroyed or hid them during the political morass before the war began is considerably more plausible than anything you can come up with. Unfortunately, that scenario wouldn't help cut Bush off at the knees, so you're not interested in it. And that's what it's really all about, isn't it?

Tom- what the hell. If I pull a gun and shoot you dead and claim "well, I THOUGHT he had a knife" that does not make me morally absolved.

If I had a long proven history of stabbing people to death, and you saw me approaching you with something unidentified yet shiny, the moral question might get a little trickier. I get a little tired of people ignoring a distinct and provable pattern of behavior on the part of Saddam that needs to be part of any analysis of intelligence data or his future actions.

You kill 15,000 people, you better have an air-tight reason. If you don't- its 10-15,000 cases of manslaughter in the least, or murder in the worst.

Or are they just some sort of Untermenschen to you? Not worth living? 'Oh- Well- It was A MISTAKE- afterall, the man only had the NSA, CIA, FBI, NRO, and Military Intel at his disposal'...

Really? You don't seem to give a rat's ass about them either when Saddam kills them. And you can squeak about it all you want, but any reasoning person reading this knows damn well that over the next thirty years he and his sons would have killed thousands more. And I don't need to "prove" that any more than I need to prove that if Hitler had conquered the rest of Europe, Russia, and England that there wouldn't have been a living Jew in any of those areas in ten years.

And I'm not saying it was either a mistake, or a lie. You're the one convinced of that.

I'm done with this too. The truth will come out eventually.