John Rosenthal: The Man They Loved to Hate (Rumsfeld and "Old" Europe) - '..."We have, above all, to prevent terrorists from getting access to weapons of mass destruction. We have to concentrate on those states that are trying to acquire such weapons and that could provide them to terrorist organizations." These two sentences contain the simple, straightforward justification for the Iraq War that has been thoroughly obscured by years of "Bush Lied!", conspiracy-mongering hysteria in the dominant European and American media. I emphasize the words "that are trying to acquire" as a reminder that the war was not about actual possession of WMD, even if the available intelligence strongly suggested that Iraq did indeed already possess biological and chemical weapons...'