So the weapons weren't there--so what, Bush says,
Saddam was a "gathering threat."
We were certainly right to start a war.
This threat simply had to be met.
A gathering threat can't be ignored,
So that's why we gave him a lathering.
Except if the weapons weren't there at all,
One wonders just what he was gathering.
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