Reply #35: I think it was precisely because they knew the intel was bogus [View All]

that they couldn't wait. Remember the secret energy plans? They spent the 1st 2 years of their administration getting their ducks in order. The oil companies, Britain, divvying up the country for oilrights, their military planning. The "causus belli" was WMD....or so they assumed. The arrogant pricks probably realized in the fall of 2002 that their assumptions of WMD were weak/wrong, but still they persisted with the war rhetoric. As the UN inspections dragged on, it became more apparent that the likelyhood was dropping and so was their reason for invasion. It became a race. The WH rhetoric became more bellicose, more vidence disregarded. Hussein even offered to open up Iraq to complete US/UN inspection, but Bush would have none of it. He wanted in.

The final proof for me is simple. If there was a shred of possibility that Iraq had WMD or Chem/bio battlefield weapons, would the chief chickenhawk have invaded? I really doubt it.