re: #4 Charles Johnson

After 9/11, and the following anthrax attacks, the idea that Iraq had WMDs was a pretty easy sell. That was also the biggest reason I supported the war - that vision of the 9/11 attacks multiplied by a thousand, if a nuclear bomb were used.

I was also greatly influenced by the book “The Threatening Storm” by Kenneth Pollack - probably more by that than anything a Bush admin official ever said. Pollack made a very persuasive case in that book.

And it was all fucking bullshit.

In fairness, Saddam Hussein was playing games with the inspectors, and deliberately making it very difficult for outsiders to tell what was really going on.