[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

I do not believe that the White House used the actual possession of WMD as a major rationale for the war.

I believe that you discredit yourself COMPLETELY by stating this.

Also, John Negroponte called....he still says there were no death squads in Honduras.

[bondjamesbond]

I said: I do not believe that the White House used the actual possession of WMD as a major rationale for the war.

You say: I believe that you discredit yourself COMPLETELY by stating this.

OK, show me where. Show me where the Bush White House, in a major policy address, said we had to invade Iraq because they had actual, usable WMD.

Oh, sure, they said Iraq had an active WMD program. True, BTW.

They said Iraq violated the Desert Storm Cease Fire. Also true, BTW.

They said Iraq was in violation of multitudinous UN Security Council Resolutions, which specifically authorized the use of force. Again, true.

They said Iraq had non-compliant long range missiles (true), experimental facilities (true) and never documented destruction of known stock-piles (true).

But show me where the White House said as a major justification for the War that Saddam was sitting there with a usable WMD bomb, nuclear, chemical, biological or otherwise. And don't give me some Undersecretary for Planning speaking to some Bozo on background.

We had all the reasons we needed without deployable WMD.