BD i'm with you on this. Every situation has a myriad of possible perspectives and thus an almost infinite number of interpretations.

That said, i still believe that there can be no doubt that Bush and Blair's administrations wilfully attempted to disregard, dismiss and outright repress certain perspectives.

In the sense that it was not possible to state in the US that maybe Saddam didn't have WMDs. There should DEFINATELY have been some sort of coverage covering the aspect that NO leader in this world would wilfully subject his nation to inspection, judgement and approval by an outside power. It runs contrary to the concept of sovereignty.

However there was virtually none. Any differeing perspective was pushed down because the proponents of those perspective didn't have the "incontrovertible intelligence" ( conveniently classified) that PROVED Saddam had WMDs.

It is possible that Bush and Blair believed in the Iraq war. It is also possible that they ensured through a variety of means that anybody believing differently was not heard. Remember the mysterious suicide of a British weapons inspector (David Kelly) who had spoken out against the war? I've always wondered why that story fizzled out so quickly.