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In reply to the discussion: The Young Turks are now running hit pieces on Mueller to help Trump [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Not sure if he was cheerleading (not really his style) so much as plugging in his portion as to what the implications of the (now disproven) WMD claims would be for domestic security/risks.
I think there's a bit of revisionism going on with Iraq, to be candid. The real debate as I recall it was not so much whether Saddam had some kind of WMD program, but what we should do even if he did have one. The notion that he did try to run a secret program--though as we saw certainly untrue--was still plausible given his past behavior. With WMDs there's also a fine line between maintaining an active program and having the required pieces (especially know-how/technology) to boot one up quickly.
But, this all should have been moot, since going to war in Iraq would have been a catastrophically stupid decision even if he did have WMDs.