Well said. First nugget of intelligent life that I've seen in this thread. My contributions included.

>I think the problem with this entire discussion is that the only truth is that we dont know what the truth is.
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>Specifically on the topic of WMD: None of us in this forum (to my knowledge) are experts in WMD. We dont know whats involved in manufacturing them or whats involved in moving them (but we argue like we do). That means we end up choosing what to believe. And that invariably is influenced by who we want to believe. And that invariably is influenced by our past experiences. So we argue about our beliefs rather than the truth. Around and around we go, where we will stop nobody knows.
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>I think that Charles Hankey some time ago in this forum made the most compelling case where he argued that you and I do not know why the war was waged. These are incredibly complex issues with far reaching causes and consequences. I'll bet that the war was waged for a variety of reasons covering the entire spectrum from good reasons to bad, from altruistic to selfish.
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>What we "know", regardless of what newspaper or TV station we get our "information" from, is information for the masses. It is not the intel discussed on the top levels of government.