http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...-2004Oct9.html



In announcing that the United States was poised to invade Iraq 19 months ago, President Bush told the nation: "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. . . . The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."



Bush's decision to attack Iraq came after urgent warnings by the president and his top aides about the challenge posed by Iraq -- what Bush called "a serious and mounting threat to our country" in his Jan. 28, 2003, State of the Union address before Congress. Few lawmakers questioned these warnings -- Sen. John F. Kerry, now the Democratic presidential nominee, did not -- and many frequently echoed them.



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This week, Bush said Iraq had been a "unique threat" and the United States was justified in attacking, largely because Hussein "retained the knowledge, the materials, the means, and the intent to produce weapons of mass destruction."



"And he could have passed that knowledge on to our terrorist enemies," the president told reporters.



In the months leading up to the war, however, Bush and other administration officials made serious and specific allegations about Iraqi capabilities in biological, chemical and nuclear warfare:



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Talk about flip-flops! So, this is like the Minority Report. We will attack a nation because they may have the "intent?" Welcome to Pre-Crime!

That's hysterically funny and sad at the same time.



Doubleplussungood in my opinion.



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There is a very funny (but sad) scene in the movie "Control Room" where one of the AlJazeera reporters is trying to comprehend this mentality while talking to the Army PR guy.