Propaganda
There is no denying the importance of propaganda in war and politics. The Bush adminsitration used it well and now will have to balance out the utility of propaganda in war with the use of their own propaganda agianst them afterward - particularly the WMD issue. Though the future of Iraq and our role therein is more important to the long-run geo-political situation, the WMD screw-up (or perception thereof) is getting more political traction. Without a big find of WMD, Tony Blair goes down next election - though more likely to a fellow Labour candidate as the Tories are still floundering in dysfunction-junction - the European public cares less about the potential horrors of Saddam's continued rule than the notion of a less-than-honest pretext for war and many Some undecided voterrs will use this as a justification to vote against Bush, even if it really has more to do with millions of jobs lost on his watch or days of Army/Marine deaths stretched out over the next 17-18 months.