Reply #12: I think that you're mostly wrong...

[David__77]

"Back then it was "Saddam has WMD's because we sold them to him"
Now it's "I always knew Saddam had no WMD's""

First, it's common knowledge that Iraq HAD such weapons. That's not contested by anyone, least of all the former government of Iraq. Just because opponents of the war against Iraq pointed out the hypocrisy of Rumsfeld et al., does not mean that we were claiming that Iraq THEN possessed such weapons. In fact, I did not believe Iraq had them, and said so, among many others. They were destroyed by the Iraqi government and the UN inspectors in the early 90's. Clinton should have lifted the sanctions years ago, and a lot of people said so.

There's no contradiction between pointing to the U.S.'s arming of Baathist Iraq and also acknowledging that Iraq hasn't had these weapons for years.