[Tim]

Yes it is a pretty dammning picture. The republicans don't like to admit that it was Bush Sr. (who ran all the nasty programs to arm middle eastern tyrants including Bin Laden himself) that started Iraq's chemical weapons program. One only has to look at the list of more than 80 agents the CDC provided to Iraq in the mid-eighties (and approved by the Reagan Administration) to know where they got their help from. Saddam gased his own people with help from the Republicans running the USA at the time.

The same neo-Cons running the government now, trumped up the WMDs issue to get permission to invade Iraq fully expecting to find them there once they defeated the government. What they didn't count on was that Saddam had actually complied with the UN demands and got rid of the weapons and the programs.

Now the USA has a big mess on its hands that has so far cost over 900 American lives, more than 11,000 Iraqi lives, tens of thousands maimed and injured on both sides, and $200 Billion in wasted taxpayer money, with no plan to get us out of there. Oh and don't forget, the majority of Iraqi's now hate Americans as well. All of this from a ChickenHawk leadership who when it was their turn to serve in the military took every advantage of their family connections to avoid being drafted into serivce.