Exhaustive review sponsored by the Pentagon finds NO link between Saddam, al Qaida

blackadder said
Are you kidding?

The idea is simply that the administration intentionally insinuated, to put it mildly, a link between Saddam and 9/11. He was equated with Bin Laden to justify and attack on Iraq.

The point is our government lied repeatedly.

It has nothing to do with Saddam being in "innocent" in general terms. He can be a ruthless dictator and still be innocent of the specific charges that he was co-conspirator in the 9/11 attack.

You can't go around the world occupying every country making war on every country where you find the government distasteful.

Please, God, get this nation past this self-righteousness.

You are missing the point completely. Your focus on my statement was on the Administration's sins. My intent was to focus on, in my opinion, the deliberate, partisan distortions by the media to paint a picture of an unjust war.

I wouldn't have a problem if the media took the approach of say, Gen. Downing, that there were more efficient methods of achieving our goals regarding Saddam. But that's not the argument that the media appears to be trying to make.