>I didn't say he had the same intelligence the president had. Stay with me on this. I said he said the evidence (that to which he was exposed) supported going to war. Surely the president had even more infomation which would only have further supported going to war.

If Kerry didn't have the same intelligence as the President, then you're comparing apples and oranges.

>Are you reading anything that's out there. This is getting tiresome. I keep posting stuff from alternate news sources (not all fox) and you keep coming back with these damn democratic talking points. Raise an issue that isn't on CNN's talking heads howaboutit.

Yeah. I have quite a few links saved in my browser. Here's one from the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13150-2004Oct6.html

The release of yesterday's definitive account on Iraq's weapons -- and its conclusion that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction years before the U.S.-led invasion -- is only the latest in a series of damaging blows to the White House's strategy of portraying the war in Iraq as being on the cusp of success.

>How do you know the weapons were there in March. Where did that information come from? The only thing I've seen is that the "seals" where there in March. Hmm, how hard would that be to duplicate/defeat? It might be the weapons weren't there on April 3rd. You have no proof they were. Therefore, one could conclude the weapons were moved prior to our troops landing there. This seems much more plausible since it would take a bunch of trucks to move this stuff and our forces were covering the roads all around this compound. I think logic dictates the stuff was long gone before we ever got there.

What I am saying is that it doesn't matter if the weapons were there on April 3rd or not. It's the fact that we knew they were there before the war started and didn't know they weren't there until May.

We had no plan to deal with them if they were there. If we did, we would have secured the base at least until a thorough inspection could be done. If they were there, great. If they weren't, we would know they were moved sometime before we got there.

But we don't know. Neither the Pentagon or the White House can tell us if those weapons were there during the rest of April or early May. We don't know because we either didn't have a plan for them, or we didn't have adequate troops to guard them.