Now for Dubya’s Great Iraq Blunder; This is one of semantics.

He kept saying; “Either Saddam Hussein will disarm or the United States will lead the coalition that disarms him”.

He SHOULD have said: “Either Saddam Hussein will turn himself in or the United States will
raise a posse and bring him in.”

Oh the hooting and hollering that would have greeted this cowboy lingo! However, it would have distinctly communicated the both the what and the why of the mission to Iraq.

Then, not finding a ready-to-shoot arsenal would not have mattered so much. And the occupation (Uncle Sam’s weak point) would probably have found its Petraeus quite a bit sooner.

Ideas have consequences and words have impact.
Live and learn.