Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
What Bush and Powell should've said, was 'we're going after some unfinished bussiness, we'll get Saddam, we'll shoot anybody who get's in our way and we don't care what nobody says.
Agreed, however, since when was any war fought like that? WWI was kicked off with the invasion of Franz Ferdinand, though he really had nothing to do with the real reasons of it. In Vietnam is was the Gulf of Tonkin that really kicked off the US intervention, but in reality is was to contain communism. In the Spanish-American war, it was the USS Maine that started the war, though the real reason was so that we can kick off the last of the European colonies and expand our over-seas economy. These reasons would have worked just fine, but doesn't seem to cut it in Congress. Aparently American blood needs to be spilled before Congress could get enough balls to do anything about war.
That's probably why Bush used the WMD thing in the first place. (but even though his WMD's didn't pose a direct threat to the US, it would still be a big destabilization factor in the region. Keep in mind that we had people in Afghanistan whilel this was going on.)