Drmiler, "The leading "warbloggers" of the time, ranging from Steven Den Beste, Right Wing News, Instapundit, Andrew Sullivan, James Lileks, One Hand Clapping, Eject Eject Eject, JoeUser (back when it was just me) and so forth were saying the same things.Anyone who thinks that we invaded Iraq primarily because we thought it contained drums of mustard gas or something is ignorant of the facts and deserves nothing but scorn and contempt for their naivete."
So, basically what your saying is the millions of Americans who were led to believe the exaggerated words of the President and his administration are only deserving of scorn and contempt for being naive enough to believe their president. I think the scorn and contempt should be reserved for the people who misled them not the people who were deceived by them. Secondly, I like how you copy paste portions of a post written by TB from another blog thread yet conveniently neglect to include my threads that went along with his. That particular conversation was between myself and TB and for you to only copy paste his portion without including everything that followed or even acknowledging there was a debate between us on this subject, in which I responded to most of TB's posts... is an exercise of cherry picking arguments from a broader debate in order to support your one-sided view and distorts the context in which TB made that particular post.
Secondly, who cares what certain bloggers believed about why we were going to war...they are only a few people out of millions who, in fact, supported the war in Iraq based on the President's distorted version of the facts. Thirdly, the U.N. inspectors that you mention above did not lie. As you can plainly see from your own post, the alleged UN intelligence you cite actually states that "The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," Perricos told the council. Perricos also reported that inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags." Note that if this stuff being shipped out of Iraq was not actual WMD but PARTS and COMPONENTS that everyone already KNEW about. How could it have been tagged by the UN if Iraq was hiding some secret WMD program??? If anything, the fact that these known materials and parts were allowed to be smuggled out of Iraq POST invasion and yet were known and being monitored PRE-invasion, certainly doesn't lend much support for the wisdom of the war now does it? The UN inspectors were not lying...they were however, heavily reliant upon US and other allied satellite imagery and intelligence that were GIVEN to them.
For those who are interested in hearing a rounded debate I was having with TB, I suggest you go to the original article which sparked our debate on this issue, entitled "Questions for the Left and Right" instead of being presented with only a selectively distored version of that debate.
