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Just a random thought.  I am really tired of the same old response whenever the WMD question in Iraq comes up.  You know the drill.  Someone mentions the fact that there were no WMD's in Iraq and the response is along the lines of, "well, everyone thought they had them...Clinton thought they had them, France, England, Germany, thought they had them...", etc... 

Yes they did.  They were wrong.  They made a mistake.  The difference is, their mistake- their deficiencies in intelligence- haven't cost thousands of people their lives and billions of dollars of their money.  Why?  Even though they thought that Iraq had WMD's, they didn't have solid evidence.  And like rational people everywhere, they value solid evidence more than some whiney little feeling in the back of an addled brain.  Could you imagine a trial where the prosecution says, "We have to put this man away.  The state thinks he is dangerous."  The court would say appropriately ask for evidence, whereupon the prosecution would present its trump card- "We don't have any real evidence...but he was dangerous one time 12 years ago and a few other states think he may be dangerous too."

We, in priniciple, would never let something like that be considered justice.  We won't risk one man's freedom without hard evidence, but we will sacrifice thousands of lives on a hunch. 

We have some serious cranial-rectal syndrome in this country sometimes.