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Originally Posted by spence
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
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uhhhh, not this again. How many freakin UN resolutions did they break, over and over and over and over again.
We always forget that war monger Bush came out and gave Sadam and untimatum of 48 hrs to leave the country. I think we jumped through more hoops to avoid war than any other time in history.
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