If you are over what, about 35, you remember that land line phones were heavy items you leased from the phone company. If you wanted an additional one, you called, and waited for them to bring it... People under 30 tend to be shocked by that whole concept, now you can buy a phone for a few dollars at Wal Mart or buy a complex expensive one, regardless of who you get your land line phone service from. I imagine in the coming decades, young people will be shocked that we used to be stuck getting our cell phone from the cell phone company, and didnt just buy the one we want at Wal Mart of Best Buy and get service from the company we chose...
And for more proof that things dont change- people used to have "illegal" or "Hot" phones that they got from God knows where and hooked up themselves... Just like some people crack the software in their phones and use them outside of the cell company that sold the phone...

Your faulty assumption is that the Administration knew that Saddam had no weapons and force fed us lies to push forward the invasion. However, the logic doesn't hold up. If the democrats felt that we shouldn't invade on the chance that Iraq had WMDs then the best course of lying would be to say that they did in fact not have any WMDs and we were invading in response to the ethnic cleansing and other breaches of the cease-fire reached at the end of the Gulf War. The Administration, the Congress, and the entire world community held the view pre-Iraq invasion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and we invaded anyways. My point, which you so brilliantly missed was that we would have invaded if Iraq had WMDs or not. Everyone, at the time of the invasion, thought that he did and it wasn't until several weeks later that questions were starting to be raised about where they were. Actually, it is worth pointing out that even Saddam thought he had these illegal weapons. Several reports were recovered in his palace in which his scientists claims their developments were moving right along in several weapons programs. The scientists were, as we know now, over stating their claims. But the arguement that nukes or WMDs is the only way to be 'safe' from invasion is faulty.