[TigersEye]

The WMD argument is a legitimate Bush gripe, no matter how you look at it. We went into Iraq with a primary goal being the removal of Saddam’s WMD’s. It turned out there were no WMD’s in Iraq, and we were all misled by bad intelligence.

• Wikileaks documents show WMDs found in Iraq
• Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq
• WMDs Found in Iraq Human Events
• Saddam talked of WMD attack in U.S.
• Saddam's WMD have been found
• Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says
• Saddam general: WMDs in Syria

[Corporate Democrat]

Bush himself came out and wrote in his post-Presidency autobiography that they couldn't find any WMD's in Iraq. He would have no reason to lie here, and as a man of integrity, I don't believe he would say that unless he truly believed it.

If Bush was deceived by Saddam, and the WMD's were moved to Syria or overlooked in Iraq, Bush still bears the responsibility for the failure to locate the WMD's, being hoodwinked by Saddam into believing there were no WMD's and for letting the WMD's fall into Muslim hands

If Bush was not deceived by Saddam, he bears the responsibility for failing to realize that Iraq did not have WMD's and consequentially overreacting. He had three years and the world's largest intelligence network at his fingertips to figure out whether Clinton's CIA guys were right or not.

Again, whether there were WMD's or not is really a moot point here; Bush messed up strategically either way you want to look at it.