>I still don't see how that is germain to the issue.

I'm addressesing your specific statement "before the Iraq war intelligence information presented an almost overwhelming necessity for our intervention there". The committee has shown that the pre-war intelligence did not show this. It showed this using only pre-war intelligence, not using new intelligence.

> At the time, the administration presented an argument and just about everyone bought it.

That's the different argument. For sure. :-)

> That was not not known by everyone before then or did you have information available to you that we here in the U.S. did not at that time?

I suspected that the intelligence was wrong, as did most citizens in most countries outside of the US and the UK. This is demonstrated by how easy it was to build a coalition to invade Afghanistan (Bin Laden and Al Queda were there) and how difficult it was to build a coalition for the invasion of Iraq.

> You didn't believe Colin Powell or you didn't think Colin Powell believed his own words at the time he spoke them?

You're right, this did confuse me when he made the speech. He is one of the few Republican politicians (in my mind) with any credibility. I wasn't sure if he was right, or had been duped. History has shown us that he was duped.