[n.y.muggs]

I always thought the major objective of invading Iraq was to fight terrorism and defend the Homeland. And we were right.

On this WMD garbage, Sadddam used them in past, never accounted for the remaining WMD. Lets move on.

[cripplecreek]

This sounds like a matter of definition to me. It seems that democrats are looking for stock piles that cover acres and fill warehouses. The truth is that its an unlikely scenario. In reality those stockpiles could fit in refrigerators. A hole the size saddam was found in could hold enough anthrax to kill hundreds of thousands of people.

[Jorge]

Like everyone else, I thought France and Germany would have egg all over their "faces' after we could show proof that our intelligence on Saddam was correct. Am I the only conservative who's a bit disillusioned with the fact that the major objective for going to war with Iraq didn't pan out?

The intelligence agencies of France, Germany, Russia etc all agreed that Saddam likely had stockpiles of unaccounted for WMD as did the UN Security Council.

It wasn't just "our intelligence".

To quote Charles Krauthammer;

"The fact that he was not stockpiling is relevant only to the question of why some prewar intelligence was wrong about Iraq's WMD program. But it is not relevant to the question of whether a war to preempt his development of WMD was justified.

The fact that Hussein may have decided to go from building up stocks to maintaining clandestine production facilities does not mean that he got out of the WMD business.

Otherwise, by that logic, one would have to say that until the very moment at which the plutonium from its 8,000 processed fuel rods is wedded to waiting nuclear devices, North Korea does not have a nuclear program."