"Pete C." wrote:
>
>
> > > The UN teams completed destruction of the production facilities and had
> > > begun destruction of the stockpiles when Saddam kicked them out.
> >
> > You didn't read the timeline very well did you. The UN pulled them out
> > because the US was planning air strikes.
>
> Incorrect, the UN pulled their teams out because Saddam was preventing
> them from doing their jobs. The air strikes were a separate thing the
> preceded the creation of the no-fly zones.

They were there when the UN pulled then out because of the air strikes that
were being called.

>
> > > A decade later when Saddam let the UN inspectors back in under threat of
> > > attack by Bush, the inspectors were unable to locate the remaining
> > > stockpiles they had inventoried years earlier.
> >
> > They were pulled out by the UN in late 1998 and they were back in early
> > 2002. That is a hell of a short decade.
>
> Plenty of time for Saddam to move and hide the remaining WMDs.

Sure. He suspected that the US was about to attack so he hid his most
destructive weapons. He was waiting for something bigger. Right.


>
> > If there was enough proof of their presence they should not have had
> > trouble finding them.
>
> That is one of the most moronic things you've said.

Oh???? I am talking about having enough proof that he had WMDs to justify
invading a country almost half way around the world. Major invasions like
that are not supposed to be launched on the basis of suspicions and
doctored intelligence. At one time the US was claiming that he was trying
to build nukes and came up with forged documents about a sale of Yellow
cake from Nigeria.

> The big fault of
> the administration in selling the war is to focus on one reason and
> ignore the dozen others, and of course they should have known that one
> reason would be the most difficult to show results on.

The American people would not have supported regime change. They were fed a
crock about Saddam's vast arsenal of WMDs and an imminent threat to the US,
and the link to 9/11. Insurgents defending their country from the American
occupation are being called terrorists.