CLICK TO READ: TomPaine.com - Smear-And-Distract Time by David Corn
CORN: "...some Democrats did plainly say in the run-up to the war that Iraq possessed WMDs. This doesn't matter. Few, if any of them, advocated going to war in March 2003 on the basis of whatever intelligence they had seen (or heard of). At that time, the inspections process was still under way—and, as is now clear, succeeding—and leading Democrats tended to support the give-inspections-a-chance position. Though the White House and its allies have maintained that prior to the war everybody believed Iraq had WMDs and everybody was wrong, this argument is phony. Before the war, the on-the-ground U.N. inspectors led by Mohamed El Baredei, the recent Nobel peace prize winner, and Hans Blix were finding no evidence of WMDs. El Baradei and his International Atomic Energy Agency concluded that Iraq had not revived its nuclear weapons program, which the IAEA had destroyed years earlier...."
THE UNKNOWN CANDIDATE: Read Corn's entire excellent article and then take a look at a related post here.
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