I don't know who she is but in Who Is Lying About Iraq? Carol Platt Liebau quotes various Democrats from 1998 saying they thought Saddam ha WMDs. Of course that's different from in 2003. Remember the UN investigating and saying they didn't find any WMDs but that Saddam had been uncooperative so they should keep investigating?
What about the much maligned Joe Wilson report. What he actually came back with was that officials in Niger said Iraq asked about buying uranium but Niger was fearful of selling it to an embargoed nation so said no (see the embargo worked!). When the right says Wilson's report proved Iraq was trying, that may be true, but it also proves they didn't succeed.
Oh and those aluminum tubes we heard about that could make nuclear bombs. But what about those reports that we didn't hear that no they couldn't. All those qualifiers in the intelligence the administration didn't want to bother us with. Colin Powell telling the UN, this isn't supposition "these are facts".
See there's another difference between 2003 and 1998. The Clinton administration didn't wage a pre-emptive war on their suspicions.
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