"No, I supported it mainly because of the convergence of a real threat and a real opportunity.
The important thing to me was never that Saddam Hussein's threat was "imminent" — although Sept. 11 taught us that is not such an easy thing to know — but that the opportunity to do something about him was finite. In a year or two, we would be distracted and Iraq would be back in the nuke-building business."
mr.ed. how do these people live with themselves? 'later, we might get distracted and miss something, therefore we go to war today' its abhorrent - the NYTIMES!!! the world has gone to bits.
"Already rather compelling evidence of Iran's development of nuclear weaponry is being dismissed as just more smoke from the Bush propaganda machine."