I'm still amazed by the fact that the administration, even if they wanted to go to war, thought they had a good case for it. They had me second-guessing my opposition way back when, with all of Rummy's press-briefing bravado in the lead-up to the invasion.
I envisioned a scenario whereby Chuck Norris and his team of special operations experts...
infiltrate one of Saddam's secret weapons bunkers, find the wmd, leave a small origami of a one-finger salute, and bring back pictures of Chuck with the anthrax, Chuck with VX gas, and Chuck with multiple-warhead ICBM. 24 hours later he sits in a bunker with Bush and Cheney making synchronized slam dunk motions alongside George Tenet.
Bush asks Chuck Norris to organizes a international coalition that includes every nation, except those in the Axis of Evil. Even Bhutan is locked and loaded. Reluctantly, he accepts and takes out Saddam & Sons with a single precision bomb. The coalition's multi-ehnic soldiers are greeted as liberators (flowers, falafel buffets, etc.). UN shows up, takes over and claims credit, Chuck Norris declines to correct them. The Iranian theocracy melts under pressure of the democratic success story next door. Democratic domino-effect spreads across Middle East, Chuck wins Nobel Peace Prize and gains 40 lbs. I am forced to admit that I was wrong about Bush on the issue. Strangely, gas still costs $3 a gallon in this scenario.
But there was no Chuck Norris in real-life, just a poorly written script that nobody followed.