Its somewhat absurd to claim "And it's, One! Two! Three Strikes! Yer Out!
... At the ol' balll game."
When we had screwball and curve ball, plus neocons screwing up any and all baseball rules.
That and the facts that various intelligence communities aping each other, not to mention the fact that Saddam was actively hyping the myth that he was not the paper tiger he was in fact was, resulted in the fact that various military intelligence communities were dumber than boxes of rocks.
Add in the fact that intelligence was cherry picked to give a distorted version if reality
resulted in the rape of the American people.
Any self respecting skeptic, realized we were being hyped into war, but manipulation absorbs 99.34 % of its weight in common sense.
Just on the face of it, how stupid is it to buy the contention that the ever clever Saddam always smuggled WMD out the back door any time the inspectors knocked on the front door. And did it not just one time but every time.