Chris, I posted those articles to provide an alternative viewpoint to whichever media outlet you are currently relying on. I'm assuming it is the same one you relied on when you were equally certain re WMD, French and all the rest of it when the attack commenced.
Fact: since neither of us was in Iraq or followed President Bush around 24/7, all we know is what the media tells us. Our "awareness" boils down to choice of media and credibility attached thereto.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
