What WMD?( biggest threat are the leaders)

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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36851
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What WMD?

by Ilana Mercer
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Posted: January 30, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

The most immediate threat to Americans clearly came from their own leaders.

Bush could have abided by the Constitution of the United States. Instead, he chose to violate it, declaring war by executive order. Members of Congress could have honored their oath to support the Constitution. Instead, they flouted it, failing to debate the wisdom of going to war and blithely approving the president's usurpation of power.

The official decision to go to war was declared around the time U.N. monitors were scouring Iraq, and, if we are to believe Kay, doing so effectively. It was announced not long after, having conducted hundreds of inspections between November 2002 and March 2003, ElBaradei reported, matter of fact, to a disinterested, jingoistic media what Kay claims today to have "discovered": There were no WMD.

And the decision was made by the executive, not the intelligence community. The intelligence community is a causal link in the chain of culpability – it is responsible for propagating the lies that fed an unscrupulous executive. But it was not the intelligence community that made the final decision that turned Iraq from a contained "rogue" state to a chaotic "failed" state.

Kay and his Iraq Survey Group will be praised for their marvelous forensic efforts, even though they've done nothing but verify the veracity of existing evidence. These were the facts before a bloody and unnecessary war; these are the facts now that over 500 Americans are dead, close to 3,000 are disfigured and maimed, and thousands of Iraqis are similarly hurt and hobbled.

As the 19th-century American philosopher of liberty, Lysander Spooner, pointed out, "Guilt is an intrinsic quality of actions." Judging by the actions they commanded, Mr. Bush and his privileged playmates are as guilty as sin.