It all gets so confusing. The right took us to war in Iraq because Saddam had WMDs. But then he didn’t. Yet now, via Josh Marshall, we see that the real reason we went to war in Iraq was because Saddam might have had WMDs, maybe, at some point:

Unfortunately — and here Feith is critical of his ultimate boss, George W. Bush — the administration allowed its critics to frame the issue around the fact that stockpiles of weapons weren’t found. Here we see at work the liberal fallacy, apparent in debates on gun control, that weapons are the problem rather than the people with the capability and will to use them to kill others. The fact that millions of law-abiding Americans have guns is not a problem; the problem is that criminals can get them and have the will to kill others. Similarly, the fact that France has WMDs is not a problem; the fact that Saddam Hussein had the capability to produce WMDs and the will to use them against us was.

This is from a Michael Barone review of Douglas Feith’s new book, “War and Decision.” You might remember Feith’s name: A major neoconservative who Gen. Tommy Franks called “the f*cking stupidest guy on the face of the earth.” Barone appears to be gunning for second place.