[LS]

Yah, it was that consensual. The UN said he had them based on their own inspectors kicked out after 1998, so that info was VERY recent (remember, all this started in 2002).

More important, NOT ONE of the major alliance members---not even France or Germany---said he DIDN'T have them! And it was totally in their interest to say he didn't. No, everyone said up front or tacitly that he had them.

[Atlantic Friend]

I suppose that shows you the limits of the tacit agreements, then. But I thought part of the shenanigans in the UN security council was about the veracity of the WMD threat. Wasn't Powell criticized because his assessment was a rip-off from a 1990 British term paper, and also because some of the pictures of mobile labs he showed were more than ten years old ? I'll have to look it up.