I am more cynical than you on the Iraq war. From the very first mention of it I felt it was a bad idea and that the Bush administration was cherry picking data to support the predetermined decision to go to war while suppressing anything counter. Saddam was sitting on 1950's technology at best. I never could see how they posed any real threat.

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