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whomod said:
ON TOP OF ALL THAT, there is the fact that Bush and especially his cabinet was planning this attack way before he started publicly discussing it and mentioning WMDs.



Presidents and their cabinets of both political parties plan contingencies and attacks, even if they never actually use them, all the time. It is part of being prepared.

For example, do you really think Roosevelt's cabinet didn't plan potential invasions of Germany prior to our entry in WWII? Or that every President thereafter up to and including Reagan didn't plan possible invasions of Cuba, China, the USSR and our other cold war enemies?

Furthermore, as noted ad nauseaum, until the current election cycle, pretty much every national official of both political parties considered Saddam a threat. As such, it made perfect since to start planning an invasion if, for no other reason, just in case.