Yes, that is the argument Condi was making.. We did it based on the information at the time that Iraq was a threat. However, don't you think that at that time, they pushed very hard to lean the intelligence toward he was a threat to the US? Powell at the UN. The tubes for producing wmd that were not. Yellow cake. "Mushroom cloud"The other night, Condi brought up how Saddam gased his own people. Yes,but that's not why we invaded. If it was simply mistaken intelligence, which I think it was more than that, than that's one helluva mistake. It's not really productive to have the journalist push her confrontationally like she did - I don't know if you saw that interview - but this isn't an issue of a ratings seeking journalist versus the class of Condi (she wins on that accord). I believe it was rush to war and that they twisted and misstated the intelligence to support their decision to invade. When it turns out to be a mistake, they justify it by saying "you voted for it" and "the world is a safer place without Hussein."
So maybe the agent orange example is not a good analogy. Just saying.
