Invading Iraq - How Britain and America got it wrong

[toontra]

An interesting documentary on Channel 4 TV tonight in the UK, plus this website for additional info - LINK (http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/01/week_4/29_invading_iraq.html)

[mactastic]

Add this article (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/01/media-preview/pollack.htm) by Ken Pollack, who by the way was a proponent of invading Iraq, asking the tough questions about why we were so wrong about Saddam's arsenal.
Let's start with one truth: last March, when the United States and its coalition partners invaded Iraq, the American public and much of the rest of the world believed that after Saddam Hussein's regime sank, a vast flotsam of weapons of mass destruction would bob to the surface. That, of course, has not been the case. In the words of David Kay, the principal adviser to the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), an organization created late last spring to search for prohibited weaponry, "I think all of us who entered Iraq expected the job of actually discovering deployed weapons to be easier than it has turned out to be." Many people are now asking very reasonable questions about why they were misled.
His suggestions at the end of the article about what to do now are well worth reading.