<<To admit such a threat is there and not do anything is worse.
<<At least Bush seeing the threat that all of them admitted was there responded.>>
To see (or to pretend to see) the threat is one thing. I don't believe that any of the folks you referred to as "seeing the threat" advocated taking no action, nor did they ever claim that there was no alternative to invasion. Bush pretended to see a threat. I say "pretended" because it is absurd for a nation as powerful as the U.S.A. to be threatened by Iraq. So did all the other Republocrats, pandering as usual to their Zionist and other patrons, some also very closely connected to the oil and construction businesses about to profit so handsomely from the invasion.
But it was Bush, not all the others, who led the nation when the decision to invade was made. It was Bush and his criminal administration who had the responsibility at that critical moment, when hundreds of thousands of lives, American and Iraqi, hung in the balance, to act in the real interests of the American people, not for the Zionist lobby, not for the oil industry and not for KBR. And Bush, asking for public support of his war, "persuaded" the American people with (according to Scott McClellan) "propaganda" and "manipulation" and "shading the truth."
You keep saying that Bush was "responding to a threat." The other POV, of course, is that there was no threat, he knew there was no threat, and he LIED about the existence of a threat in order to justify an illegal and immoral act of unprovoked aggression that has now taken hundreds of thousands of human lives and cost the American people more than three trillion dollars.
Americans have a choice - - to vote for a continuation of the Bush administration in the person of John McCain, or to hope (and I don't put it any higher than a "hope") that Barak Obama will deliver a change in the direction of the country AWAY from the Bush-McCain path. I just see it as a personal choice - - if you're satisfied with what Bush has done, if you want to stay on that path, then fine: vote McCain. This is obviously plane's way, and sirs' way and probably yours as well. Hell, plane doesn't care even if Bush DID lie - - "Don't all Presidents lie?" he asks rhetorically, and goes on to state that it's part of the job description. Well, go vote for Bush's guy, then, the "maverick" John McCain. He's off to a good start in the lying, cheating and swindling field, he's a Charter Member of the Keating Five. More recently he pulled the same shit with Paxson, another dicey contributor he did favours for. Is Obama just an empty suit with a great slogan and some really slick PR? I'm starting to think that's the case, but in him, you have a chance to vote for someone who MIGHT be different. Or might not. Not the greatest of choices, but I know which one makes more sense.