> > We just don't know what it is we're trying to measure or > > how to go about it. > > Curtis: > Going into Iraq was a stupid idea from what was known IMO... > Maybe so, but almost everyone thought Saddam had WMD and would use them. We didn't know for sure until after the invasion of Iraq that he didn't have what everyone thought he had.
So, maybe you thought it was a stupid idea, but many others, who are supposedly a lot smarter than you are, such as Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, didn't know for sure, so they voted to authorize the president to use force to find out. So, how did you know *for sure* that Sadaam didn't have WMD and would not use them? And, what would you have done instead? "On Nov. 20, the Tribune began an inquest: We set out to assess the Bush administration's arguments for war in Iraq. We have weighed each of those nine arguments against the findings of subsequent official investigations by the 9/11 Commission, the Senate Intelligence Committee and others... After reassessing the administration's nine arguments for war, we do not see the conspiracy to mislead that many critics allege..." Read more: 'Judging the case for war' The Chicago Tribune, December 28, 2005
