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It is fair to point out, though, that everyone, even the french and germans (and every prominent US Democrat), believed that Saddam had the WMD before the invasion, and before Bush even came to office.

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I love how diehard Republicans like to say things like this, as if it excuses Bush's lies about WMD, as if he didn't have special access to intelligence that France, Germany, and prominent Democrats were not privy to.

And, if it really was just a big mistake on Bush's fault that he wasn't at all culpable for, why did he go forward with nominating Bolton when he was responsible for part of the intelligence screw-up?