It Matters
Steve Gilliard at Daily Kos, who often has excellent, thoughtful posts has a particularly excellent one about Eight reasons why WMD matters
In part, he says:
In the real world away from the Beltway, real people are being harmed.......There was no link between Iraq and Al Qaeda in any way, shape or form, and focus against a deadly terrorist sponsor was lost to invade and occupy Iraq. The only loigical reason to invade and occupy Iraq was due to WMD....
...It matters if we find them or not because the President said they were there in quantity and that America should risk their sons and daughters to eliminate this threat. Saddam is gone and in hiding somewhere, US troops are still dying, this time in a nasty guerrilla war and someone needs to be held accountable for this. Waving the dead Shia about will not protect Bush and his cronies from the justifiable rage of those burying their teenage sons.
The whole thing is worth reading.