There were more reasons than specified to go to war. You don't go out and mention every single reason why you are going to remove a regime, you state the most dangerous reasons and make those public. President Bush has stated time and time again that we need to Reshape the Middleeast. He has stated time and time again that Saddam Hussein was a supporter of Terrorism - both before and after the Iraq war; and he stated that Saddam Hussein had WMD.

You act as if President Bush lied about the WMD. President Bush went off the same intelligence that the United States had been using for the past 12 years. The same information that caused Bill Clinton to bomb chemical plants in Iraq. The bottom line was the intelligence was wrong. It wasn't that President Bush lied about the intelligence, it was that it was flat out wrong. The director of the CIA resigned because of it, we reformed the CIA and added more funding to the intelligence community so that sort of thing doesn't happen again, and they admitted their fault (the CIA).

The fact remains that there were other reasons to go to war with Iraq, and President Bush did state those prior to the war. Were they the main reasons? Were they the reasons that made us have the urgency that we did? Admittingly, no. They were very valid and important reasons nonetheless; and given the information President Bush had in front of him the WMD threat was real, present, and had to be dealt with right then and right there.

Just because he now states some of the other reasons, as being more primary of reasons for the war, does not make the war any less just, important, or necessary.

You hit the nail on the head though, it really comes down to a difference of opinion o what needed to be done and when.