THE definitive response to "but everyone thought they had WMDs!"

[gcomeau]

How many times have you heard that nonsense? "Oh, but the French and the Germans and the Russians all thought the same things! EVERYONE was fooled!"

Bull.

http://c-span.org/resources/fyi/frenchresolution.asp

Bookmark it, print it out, and the next time someone tries feeding you that drivel shove it down their throat.

Specifically point 1.

That memo was submitted less than a MONTH before the chimp proclaimed he was invading, AFTER Powell presented the "evidence" to the security council of WMDs in Iraq.

-Grant