Thought crimes

The WaPo reports Cheney: Weapons Report Justifies Iraq War (washingtonpost.com):

"'As soon as the sanctions were lifted he had every intention of going back' to his weapons program, Cheney said."

So, we pre-emptively initiated a war on a soveriegn country for thought crimes, killing over 1,000 of our brave troops and wounding thousands more. How Orwellian.