Can an idea be a crime?

When Bush thinks it, yes. Poputonian over at Hullabaloo explains:
"The notion of Iraq as the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history is rapidly gaining currency in the MSM, but it really is much worse than that. When the policy itself is fundamentally built upon a fraud, it should more appropriately be called a crime. The Bush administration even admitted (see Wolfowitz, Vanity Fair) that they sequenced through various rationales for war before selecting WMDs as what they thought would be the most palatable to the American people. By doing this, they misrepresented their real intentions and masked the policy's real goal and purpose, which was to conquer a foreign sovereign and remake the politics of Middle East. That was the ideological IDEA behind the Iraq war, and when that idea was acted upon, the administration moved beyond the realm of policy flub, and into the realm of international tyranny. When ideas are put into action, they have consequences. A famous Republican once said so."