So, anybody keeping track of the reason (excuses) for war?

[Walt Starr]

1) WMD's Nope, nothing there.

2) Saddam was a bad man Yeah, so what. There's lot's of bad guys in the world.

3) Freedom's on the march! Baloney. Purple fingers do not a free nation make.

4) 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 Sounds like they're scraping the bottom of their talking points barrel to me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. remember the 9.11 tripe started shortly before

the other excuses

[tridim]

5. Yep the 9/11 excuse has been there since the day after 9/11

The snake is eating it's tail now.

[cynatnite]

2. better there than here

in other words, we're taking the war to them

[MazeRat7]

3. We've been given so many "reasons" it is indeed hard to keep track...

Who knows what "justification" will be used next year.

MZr7

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. wh claims that they never said it was because of WMD, it was

about liberating Iraq and forming a democracy. Since that isn't working out, the new claim is that Iraq is a country full of terrorists ready to do evil to red staters.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Doze Dems got no ideas.

Dems didn't think of going to Iraq so they got no ideas.

yea. it was an idea!

[sjeberling]

7. Remember the Alamo! Iraqi UFOs attacked the Alamo on 9/11

Remember:
Be a lemming, stay the course.

Ask any true American,
Are they willing to die for Iraq and Islamic Fundamentalists!

Something is wrong here.

[Goldmund]

8. Check this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3980701

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Because it's Wednesday, and everybody wars on Wednesday!

No, wait... That's "Everybody works on Wednesday!"

Sometimes fictional characters (in this case Dave from the movie of the same name) would make better leaders than those currently in charge.

Hell, any fictional character -- from Spiderman to Snoopy -- could do a better job than these guys.

[Bozita]

10. Why We Went In: Version 10.0

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF...

Why We Went In: Version 10.0

by P.J. Crowley and Robert O. Boorstin

March 19, 2004

In the year since the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has repeatedly shifted its justification for going to war and constantly changed its story on intelligence, the United Nations, reconstruction, political transition and the cost to the American taxpayer. More than anything, the administration's war in Iraq resembles a software program that, at first, works brilliantly, but then catches the user in a cycle of "fatal error" messages.
Here then, in Silicon Valley terms, is a review of the Bush administration's year in Iraq:

Saddam Hussein poses an 'imminent threat' to the American people.
* Version 1.0 - Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat
* Version 1.01 - Saddam Hussein is a gathering threat
* Version 1.02 - Saddam Hussein poses a real and dangerous threat
* Version 1.1 - The smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud
* Version 1.2 - We can't afford to wait
* Version 1.3 - We never said imminent
* Version 1.3.1 - OK, maybe we did say it once or twice
* Version 1.4 - We should have been more precise

Saddam Hussein is ready to use weapons of mass destruction.
* Version 2.1 - Saddam has weapons of mass destruction
* Version 2.2 - Saddam has nuclear weapons
* Version 2.3 - Saddam has biological agents he's never accounted for
* Version 2.3.1 - The trailers are mobile labs for producing chemical weapons
* Version 2.3.2 - Unmanned aircraft are ready to spread Saddam's biological weapons
* Version 2.4 - Saddam's going to make more of all these weapons
* Version 2.5 - We all know where the weapons are
* Version 2.5.1 - Well, Saddam has used weapons of mass destruction
* Version 2.5.2 - Iraq is a big country. We'll find the weapons eventually.
* Version 2.5.3 - Saddam had weapons of mass destruction programs
* Version 2.5.4 - Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction program related activities"
* Version 2.5.5 - David Kay? Who's David Kay?
* Version 2.6 - It's not about misleading the American people - Saddam Hussein is gone and that's the most important thing

more, all the way to Version 10.0 ...