Looking back now...

Perhaps the issue isn't IF mistakes were made, but WHAT mistakes were made. Is this accurate?

My point from the beginning has been this:

To make the threat posed by Saddam Hussien and his regime the center of post-9/11 foreign policy in the US was the single greatest mistake Bush and Co. have made to date. I have YET to see one iota of substantiated evidence that Saddam posed any greater a threat to US interests in the world or region than Iran has shown CONTINUOUSLY since 1979. None the less, this administration has focused almost exclusively on the threat posed by Saddam and his NBC programs that we were assured continued from '91 all the way through '02.

We were shown uranium enrichment facilities, mobile biological warfare units, missile designs and warhead capacities, heavy water production areas, nuclear material bunkers... and promised by the Defense Department and the State Department that these were ongoing programs within the Iraq regime. Every single one of these "threats" proved to be non-existant after the '91 campaign. It was SO non-existant (according to the CSIS report I quoted earlier) that the Administration, and Tenant in particular, had to use PRE-1991 satellite images of the "threats" for the UN Security Council presentation by Powell. Am I the ONLY person here that finds that fact unbelievably disturbing? STOCK PHOTOS were used to make OUR case to the UN? This is how the US justifies itself to its allies and friends? This is how the Administration's case is made to the American people? Please...

I'm off to work now, but this is a thread we need to follow. Let's establish WHAT was done wrong, the argue the point to everyone's satifaction, alright?