Well, Duh

John Hughes points out the obvious -- that all the information at the President's disposal before the Iraq war indicated that Saddam Hussein had WMD; heck, even his own generals believed it.

Hughes' conclusion comes down to this:

Bush critics can argue that the president was too gullible in accepting the conclusion of his intelligence agencies. But the evidence does not suggest that he knowingly lied to the American public about the existence of WMD.

Indeed. And if the President was "too gullible" in accepting the conclusions of his own intelligence agencies (whose conclusions, incidentally, agreed with those of intelligence services worldwide), to whom, exactly, should he be listening?

Men like Zbigniew Brzezinski? Women like Madeleine Albright? I certainly hope not . . .

Were all the lefties "lying" when they forecast a parade of horribles in Iraq -- burning oil wells, a massive refugee problem, chemical weapons being turned on Americans? Of course not. They were wrong, no doubt. But they were making the best judgements of which they were capable (which tells you all you need to know) given the information they had.

That's what President Bush was doing, too, with much more unequivocal intelligence cutting toward the conclusion that Saddam had WMD. So deal with it.