Reply #14: That's for sure

[karynnj]

It is frustrating to me that many people do not know the timeline on this - and do not realize that there was over 5 months between the IWR vote and the initiation of the war. It was during that interval when the inspectors were in for the first time in 4 years - found no WMD and got Saddam to destroy his most modern missiles. This is in sync with Bush speaking last month that "people in DC longer than he" believed the bad intelligence. (Ignoring that he distorted it and that far more was known in March 2003 than in Oct 2002. He is attempting to both spread the blame and argue that it was an understandable mistake.