Originally posted by: DealMonkey
I believe Bush & Co deceived the nation to go to war w/ Iraq. It makes sense given that much of the cabinet/administration had pre-decided that Iraq needed to be dealt with prior to taking office (see PNAC, Project for a New American Century), you have several former high-level officials now talking about the admin's obsession with getting Saddam pre-9/11. Leading up to the war, you have distortions of the truth, fear-mongering, relying on untrustworthy sources for intel (Iraqi Nat'l Congress, Iraqi defectors, etc.), over-reliance on old intel or cherry-picked intel, etc., etc. They hyped the data to create the story they thought everyone would sign off on.
Now I admit the administration tap-danced around the truth well enough that it's difficult, if not imposssible to accuse them of outright lies, however I believe there was very much a coordinated effort to deceive. Problem is, there's enough raw data to support either side of this issue and therefore the eternal conflict rages on with both sides pointing to data that supports their case of whether the administration was deceptive or not.
With as often as this issue pops up around here, don't we all just find ourselves saying the same thing over and over? I do. Will anyone change their minds about this? Not likely. We don't discuss the 2000 elections anymore do we? Well, some of us don't

but seriously, it seems like we've all formed our opinions about it and aren't backing down, so why not just move on? We'll find out in November just how successful this little charade really was . . .