>There is no question that the Bush administration badly managed the Iraq war after the initial attack. But that doesn't change the fact that the initial action was justified.

For my foreign ears "justfied" can be interpreted in too many ways. First reading was something like "he had it coming anyway" as the offically given reason, existing WMD, never materialized. So I am heavily seconding John post and in a bar I might needle you that the second sentence to me feels a lot like intellectual dishonesty you mentioned elsewhere in the thread.