hussein. totally wrong, totally plenty of evidence contradicting that. and when you took all that together, what took place, i think at the end of the day was really a very large deception of the american public. richard haass. i disagree, i read the intelligence, it wasn t a deception. you opposed the war from inside. go ahead, though. but the preponderance of the evidence was that they certainly had biological weapons, chemical for sure, we didn t know what they had in the nuclear space. i think what s important, though, not just the weapons of mass destruction. what drove the bush administration to go to war, something you said, after 9/11, coming back to the cheney story. zero propensity to run any doubt. and two other things, they wanted to send the world a message after 9/11, the united states was not a pitiful helpless giant. they wanted to do something. plus, the president had been sold a bill of goods by a lot of