Two More Cents

Bush may have been willing to go to war in Iraq despite prior knowledge of no weapons of mass desctruction (WMDs) but he would have been awfully lonely over there. I doubt even the Brits would have gone along with the adventure absent a WMD fig leaf. Also, one wonders if Congress would have gone along with it without the WMD threat being waved about so prominently. Possibly but it would have been MUCH more politically difficult than it was and wasn't exactly a cake walk even with the expectation of WMDs.
Bottom line: When Bush talks about what he would have done way back when, its more about being on message for today than any accurate assesment of what might have been.