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Yeah, finally.

"Connections" to terrorists does not justify invading another country, otherwise we should have invaded half the nations in the world by now, and certainly every nation in the middle east. Even Afghanistan got the option to turn over Ossama Bin Laden and we only attacked after they refused to do so.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have more terrorist connections than Saddam did, and they are our allies. This document is no smoking gun, it's a pathetic excuse for a failed, and possibly criminal policy. We decided it was a good idea to invade Iraq, and then went out looking for reasons to do so. Period.

At first I thought we'd talked ourselves into it out of sheer eagerness and stupidity. And that might indeed still be the case, I'll give Bush the benefit of the doubt on the WMD intelligence meltdown, incompetence rather than maliciousness. But nothing I've seen in any report so far has convinced me we couldn't have made it all up deliberately just so we had an excuse to invade. And if THAT's in some secret report somewhere, I don't expect it to surface as long as the Republicans are in power. I don't expect you'll believe it either, even if it does.

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