WHY WE WENT TO WAR (again!)

(Via Atrios but also check out the discussion about missing gaggles at TPMcafe)

White House Daily Briefing, July 9, 2003
http://www.usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/press/2003/july/071002.html

FLEISCHER: But there's a bigger picture here, and this is what's fundamental --the case for war against Iraq was based on the threat that Saddam Hussein posed because of his possession of weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological, and his efforts to reconstitute a nuclear program. In 1991, everybody in the world underestimated how close he was to getting a nuclear weapon. The case for going to war against Saddam is as just today as it was the day the President gave that speech.

EARLIER FLEISCHER:

"We know for a fact there are weapons there." - Ari Fleischer, Jan. 9, 2003