Originally Posted by dgg9

Yes, that's easier than offering on point answers to the insoluble problems implicit in your conspiracy theory du jour, like:

Prior to the Iraq War, there was broad consensus that Saddam Hussein had WMD. It was not just Bush saying so. You have seen the big list of quotes form Democratic Senators (including Kerry), European heads of state, pundits, etc -- all of them saying the same thing.

Now, the Congress has access to the same intel Bush does, and Europeans have their own, different, sources of intel.

And they all said the same thing.

So if all the intel and everyone looking at it said the same thing, how is it that only Bush lied? What about Europe? What about Congress? Did they lie too?

Your pet theory, if taken seriously, mandates therefore that either:

1. The intel, worldwide, said Saddam had no WMD, and everyone is lying, or
2. The intel, worldwide, said Saddam had no WMD, and everyone else read it wrong, so they're all honestly mistaken, but (the supposedly stupid) Bush alone in the entire universe read it correctly, so he's lying, AND he started a war knowing the politically damaging revelation of no WMD was guaranteed, or
3. The intel, worldwide, said Saddam had WMD, and everyone's statements, worldwide, reflected that, and Bush said pretty much what everyone else was saying, only now partisan revisionism is setting in.

You posit '2' as most likely. Did you even think about any of this for two seconds?