Again, for wingnuttia benefit: NO ONE questions whether or not Saddam Hussein was an ugly, vicious thug, and I'll sleep as good as our preznut following his execution...hell, I wouldn't even bat an eye if they let Jeb's guys down in Florida carry it out (aside: can the Bushes do ANYTHING right, or is this some sort of genetic thing?).
That said, it's now quite clear now--and WAS clear then--to anyone with more than a few functioning brain cells that Saddam Hussein was NOT a threat to the United States:
The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.
In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that during his posting to the UN, "at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assess that Iraq's WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests."
Mr Ross revealed it was a commonly held view among British officials dealing with Iraq that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been "effectively contained".
Contained. Not a threat. But Shrub insisted on his war, and Blair played indulgent parent--and liar--to the former's childish demands.
Now watch as they try to pin blame for the worst foreign policy disaster in history on anyone except those responsible...themselves.
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