Here's a little air cover from a not-so-leftist source:
frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21970///
It's longish.. but here is the link to the NIE report from Oct 2002.

http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/iraq-wmd.html

In doesn't sound like hysterical fear-mongering.. and when you start to consider all the other events in the region.. War against Iraq was definitely a viable policy for the US.. after all.. Pres Clinton had authorized "regime-change" in 1998.

http://http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITIC.../clinton.iraq/
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Now you could weasel about how it was merely diplomatic rhetoric..
But that is exactly the way international politics happens.
Not some indignant complaint about whose interests are served..

This is a link to Al Jazeera.. notice how similar our friends here on this forum sound like our enemies.

http://http://islamic-world.net/warn...%20invaded.mht
Or is this also a dumb post?