All they needed was a reason.

From Wikipedia: (Paul O'Neill article):

In 2004 Ron Suskind produced the book The Price of Loyalty, detailing O'Neill's tenure in the Bush Administration... O'Neill claims...that the war in Iraq was planned from the first National Security Council meeting, soon after the administration took office.

and said so, and they had to make her position known, to discredit him by saying he didn't know the truth which he had learned by association with the country that supposedly was providing the yellow ore to Iraq. I never understood the association between her being a spy and his being a well-informed diplomat. She wasn't an active asset..

Cheney belongs in jail and why he isn't there is a failure of our system...

Hans Blix February 14, 2003 report was diplomatic and bureaucratically stated -- yet the truth was there in plain sight: no WMD had been found in Iraq after months of inspections.

The Bush/Cheney ordered unprovoked attack and invasion of Iraq was not a mistake -- it was a deliberate criminal act.

AS DELIVERED
BRIEFING OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL, 14 FEBRUARY 2003
Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC, Dr. Hans Blix

http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/blix14Febasdel.htm

... Since we arrived in Iraq, we have conducted more than 400 inspections covering more than 300 sites. All inspections were performed without notice, and access was almost always provided promptly. In no case have we seen convincing evidence that the Iraqi side knew in advance that the inspectors were coming.

The inspections have taken place throughout Iraq at industrial sites, ammunition depots, research centres, universities, presidential sites, mobile laboratories, private houses, missile production facilities, military camps and agricultural sites. At all sites which had been inspected before 1998, re-baselining activities were performed. This included the identification of the function and contents of each building, new or old, at a site. It also included verification of previously tagged equipment, application of seals and tags, taking samples and discussions with the site personnel regarding past and present activities. At certain sites, ground-penetrating radar was used to look for underground structures or buried equipment. ...

More than 200 chemical and more than 100 biological samples have been collected at different sites. Three-quarters of these have been screened using our own analytical laboratory capabilities at the Baghdad Centre (BOMVIC). The results to date have been consistent with Iraq’s declarations. ...

How much, if any, is left of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and related proscribed items and programmes? So far, UNMOVIC has not found any such weapons, only a small number of empty chemical munitions, which should have been declared and destroyed. ...

telling us to do it again.

As someone pointed out today on Ari's Sirius show, the media didnt bring back the Vietnam war creators and managers to later tell us how to run a war, they were never heard from again...