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>>Ah, but you make the assumption that Bush believed the same intelligence as the others. If one accepts the argument (as you do not) that Bush knew the 'truth', then your inability to understand the outrage is not understandable.
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>I'm not following you. I said ALL the leaders of the US believed the intelligence, as did several other foreign leaderships. Just becuase there is no direct link between Saddam and 9/11 doesn't mean there is no proof he was involved with training, harboring and possibly directing terrorist operations. He needed to be removed and he has been. The next step is to stabilize the country and then move on to Iran.

I realise that. What I'm having a problem with is how you know so definitively that all of them believed it. If Bush and his inner circle lied (and I'm not saying they did, because I don't have any inside information), then the fact that he says he believed the same intelligence that the rest of them received would also be a lie. It is not beyond the pale to think that a U.S. president could lie, yet somehow you seem to know without question that Bush and crew are not lying. You are not presenting this as your opinion. You are saying with no latitude for dissent that they all knew the same thing. How do you know that? That's my only question.