JOKES ON US - WMD TALK WAS A "CHARADE"

(Via Atrios)

RogerLSimon lets the rest of us know what was really going on with all the WMD talk by the Administration:

As the for the run-up to the war, in looking back I think it was a big game of charades that everybody understood. Despite what was said, the obvious US motivation was geo-political. We wanted the despot Saddam out of the Middle East and replaced by a democracy. The French and the Russians - never particularly interested in democracy in the first place - desperately wanted to keep their cash cow in office. Everybody knew this, so the dreaded WMDs had to be emphasized in front of the UN.

Of course the real mistake was this emphasis on WMDs instead of a more honest declaration of the what the war was really about - democracy.

Simon admits that the emphasis on WMD was less than honest and lets us know that everybody understood this, courtesy of SimonPolling.

His commenters are not bothered by the blatant dishonesty:

Calvin agrees with Simon:

This is a succinct description of my feeling as well.

Neo-Neocon adds:

As far as the buildup to the Iraq are goes, I'm with Roger--it was common knowledge, at least in the blogosphere, that the extreme emphasis on WMDs was for the world international community--the UN (although fat lot of good that did). There were always multiple reasons for the war, chief among them changing geopolitical realities in the region. But that would have been a hard sell, to say the least.