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Originally Posted by buckman
I remember Saddam playing with the UN like the back boneless organization they are. Why didn't Hans finish his inspections?
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Initially Saddam was certainly playing games with the inspectors, Hans Blix even reported about this to the UN. But as the US Troops built up Saddam did become more cooperative.
What's important to note though is that Blix stated very specifically that they were confident in their findings even knowing that Saddam was attempting to hamper their progress.
The inspections were not finished because Bush started the invasion. Blix requested some more time, less than a month if I remember, to complete their report.
I think we can both agree that the decision to go to war was made in advance and that the UN process was simply an attempt to appease the middle.
This was Bush's conundrum. The case for war was so thin he couldn't risk invading without legal authority as the hard line neo-cons so desired. Going to the UN ultimately proved to just make things look worse when the "given" justification for war proved to be invalid.
It's too bad that Powell lost the argument...
-spence