Why the WMD issue is so important

Excellent, thoughtful article in The Atlantic by Clive Cook. Concludes: “Deliberately misleading voters, even in a cause as good as the destruction of Saddam Hussein, is bad in itself. It may very well prove counterproductive as well — especially if America and its allies are right to suppose that the war against the West’s enemies is only just beginning. In prosecuting this long war, the electorate’s trust is a vital strategic asset. George W. Bush’s stock of credibility with voters seems ample, for now. But what happens next time when Tony Blair, clutching bulging dossiers of intelligence, asks Britain to trust his assessment of national security and to go to war? Unless danger by then is staring them in the face, his audience is going to take an awful lot of convincing.”