[lamontcg]

I was 30 and 32. I just listened to the weapons inspectors. I wasn't surprised at all when all of Hussein's bluster was about putting on a domestic show of opposition and not appearing weak, apparently I understand dictators better than the CIA.

Also when Rice was testifying that if Hussein had HEU that he was 9 months away from a nuclear device I knew she was lying without lying, because I'm probably 9 months away from a (crude) nuclear device if you give me enough HEU (and let me buy some chemicals to make explosives).

The yellowcake nonsense was also clearly nonsense in real-time, and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 because Hussein would have put to death any Salafists he could find.

I also was old enough then to remember this guy explaining why invading Iraq was a bad idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT7Ik_X1HU0

And fast-forward to today and Michael R. Gordon who put forward the argument in the NYT that Iraq was building a nuclear bomb (the "aluminum tubes") is the same journalist who wrote the sick Wuhan lab workers piece in the WSJ (which once again only quoted "intelligence sources say..." and was otherwise fact-free). When someone is getting you very, very angry at a foreign power you should question why (Democrats would do well to look at all the hype around Russia and all the nothing being done about the Trump administration by Biden).