According to the wingnuts who infest Matt Yglesias’s comments (in general, this means that some Rush-esque demagogue has already stated the theory; few have the intelligence to come up with it themselves), the point of the war on Iraq was to prevent Saddam from bribing French officials.

If we were really worried about that kind of thing, couldn’t we have just, err, bribed French officials? I doubt they’d have needed $150 billion…