Bush says most other countries thought Saddam had WMDs also....

[kentuck]

But why did they think that? Were they going on "intelligence" that we gave them? If they thought he was as dangerous as Bush thought he was, then why didn't they support him in his invasion?

Even Bill Clinton thought he had WMDs, they say. Yes, but Bill Clinton did not invade. And it was not because he was a coward, it was because he understoood the importance of the UN and allied cooperation. Bush didn't give a damn and he was wrong. He rolled the dice and they came up snake eyes...

[ScrewyRabbit]

1. Sure, plenty of countries thought he had some WMDs

...because he used them in the 1980s (when he had our tacit, even explicit, support). That wasn't the issue, though -- the issue was whether he had a large quantity and was he willing to share anything he had with terrorist organizations. In short, was he an imminent threat. And here the intelligence communities were pretty well unified in their belief that he WASN'T an imminent threat.

In other words, containment was working pretty well, just as it had under Clinton, so was the danger worth the price of invasion? No.

[acmavm]

2. I don't know whether or not other countries thought he had WMDs, but

I do know that no one considered Saddam an imminent threat, nor did they feel that there was any reason to attack Iraq. That's apparent everytime you read about the 'coalition of the willing' and see who signed on to this foreign fiasco. No major power in the world was willing to go along with this farce. So no matter what these loons say anyone 'thought', they sure as hell didn't think it was worth killing thousands of innocent Iraqis.

Bush's problem is that he doesn't think that the ordinary citizen of any country can think and reason, that all the intelligence of the world is contained within his little cabal of war-mongering chicken-hawk buddies. He refuses to believe that we can take information and process it and come out with a reasonable, sane, intelligent conclusion. He's too damn stupid to realize that just because they keep repeating their 'this was a just war' message, that millions of people on this planet are still going to know that it wasn't, and isn't. Bush's arrogance is such that it prevents him from even having the intelligence quotient of an idiot.