Reply #11: Two issues here that need consideration.......

[Minnesota Libra]

.....in all fairness I'm not sure I would have taken the word of Saddam’s foreign minister on much of anything either. I mean come on what else was the guy going to say except "Nope, nothing here."

That having been said, why didn't Bush have some covert ON THE GROUND action going on to find out what kinds of weapons Saddam really had before sending troops in??

answer:

Finish Daddy's war - get one up on good old Dad while at the same time making a few cool billion on oil and military equipment. Plus, if Bush can pull it off - and he may have already accomplished this - Iraq's oil will stay under the good old dollar instead of switching to the euro. Maybe that is why we always hear "mission accomplished" because for him the deal is done and to hell with my fellow countrymen/women.