re: #978 elbruce

If Bush had gone to the U.N, our allies, Congress and the American people and said that he wanted to “get rid of a horrible tyrant” he would have been laughed off the podium. There are dozens of horrible tyrants in the world. Always have been. That’s never been a good enough reason for us to start a war.

If that was his reason, why didn’t he say so from the beginning? Instead he lied.

He didn’t lie. Everyone thought Saddam had WMDs, because Saddam wanted us to think he did. It was not a lie.