Yeah, that's pretty amazing stuff. I read the op-ed piece by Wilson in the NY Times and find it extremely derelict that Bush would include it in his speech.

The other really funny thing is the documents Bush said the British had that supported his claims of Iraq's nukes were both from the US. One was the plagarized thesis from a grad student in California, and the other was the CIA intelligence report.

What this all really means is, there was no threat to the US. We were in no imminent danger. Not from nukes, not from chemicals, not from biological weapons. Iraq posed no threat what-so-ever. The CIA has also stated last Thursday that they concluded there was no link between Iraq and al Queda. And Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield knew it all along.

There was no reason to send our troops to war. The safety of America - our freedom - was never in jeopardy. Saddam was contained, being watched, and posed a threat to no one.

In other words, all those brave soldiers died in vain.

They didn't die for the noble cause of protecting our way of life - our freedom. They didn't die for the security of America. They died because a group of men with ill intent conjured up an image that scared the public into believing them.

And they continue to die because the arrogance of those same men refuse to acknowledge their miscalculations. They grossly underestimated the Iraqi peoples' will to be Arabs, not Americans.

The bottom line is, over 200 Americans and 6000 Iraqi civilians have died because someone lied. That is inexcusable.