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...While the Bush administration continues to insist that the invasion was justified and necessary despite the news that weapons of mass destruction on which the case for war was built didn't exist, Powell admitted to the Washington Post that if he'd known the truth about Iraq's WMD capability he might not have advocated an invasion. Asked if he would have advocated invading in the absence of WMD, the Secretary of State answered: "It was the stockpile that presented the final little piece that made it more of a real and present danger and threat to the region...
...hint from Powell that all of this may have been the product of errant "political calculus" won't do much for the administration's credibility. Indeed, leading lights of the foreign policy establishment have warned that fixing the credibility gap left by the failure to find WMD in Iraq is a matter of urgency. A charitable view of Powell's comments might be that he is seeking to heal the rift with Europe - the Europeans are hardly going to be convinced by Vice President Cheney's plea for moving on at the same time as insisting that the Iraq invasion...
...sure, even some of the key antiwar Europeans believed Saddam may have had some WMD capability. The intelligence agencies of Germany and France may have been as surprised as the CIA by the complete absence of any such weapons in Iraq. All of them will, no doubt, be following the U.S. and British lead in reviewing their own intelligence-gathering processes. But while such reviews are clearly urgent, they don't answer the question of how and why the Bush administration led America into war against what now appears to have been a phantom menace, or at least a tragically...
...things going on in the U.S. (like your utterly corrupt administration in the White House), of all the scandals (Halliburton, lack of WMD, the Plame affair, to name a few), this is what the media is concerned with?! Hello? Is there anyone out there who cares that the U.S. is falling apart? Amal Chaaban Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...
...Come November, if American voters are presented with a U.S. commitment in Iraq with a visible endpoint, and which advanced the greater good despite significant costs, the Republicans have good reason to believe the question of WMD will not weigh heavily on voters' minds. But it's far from clear right now that come Election Day, a happy ending will be in sight for Iraq...