re: They didn't buy that crap about WMD in Iraq, and neither did anyone else
Everybody bought the WMD crap, even liberal critics of the administration who today conveniently tend to forget it. I know, I was one of them. But I can be forgiven for being a fool, I'm not the leader of the free world.
Everybody bought the crap about WMD because Saddam was doing everything he could to sell it. His miscalculation was to think that it would dissuade Bush from invading. It was Bush's miscalculation to think it would justify his invasion. The only ones who won were those who found themselves free of the Iraqi threat without having to pay a political or financial price for it. Wheels within wheels...