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Yes. If you're doing UN resolutions, you have to wait until you convince the UN to do something, ala Bush senior.



You're putting a lot of emphasis on the idea that we're not the UN. And, we're not. But, that's not the point. The UN was just the vehicle we used to try to improve our hand in negotiations. That there were UN resolutions just shows that there were tremendous previous efforts to negotiate the WMDs out of Iraq. Not that UN resolutions were handed down from god or anything. Just that if you were going to get WMD's out of Iraq via negotiations (or at least inspections), we tried that - extensively.

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There was no dire threat to our country. Especially since we were already busy with one war.



Yeah, that's the question. Rather than type a bunch of shit that's not gonna change anybody's mind, I'll just think about it.

Part of my problem is I'm not convinced he didn't have them. And, that's definitely a minority opinion. We know he had them at one time, he used them in the late 80's. Why would he deny inspections AND get rid of them? If you're going to deny inspections, why wouldn't you just keep them? And, I remember there were a couple of ABC reporters who came back with a bunch of evidence they'd moved the WMD's to Syria just before the invasion.

If terrorists could get there hands on WMD's, knowing what happened on 9/11, you don't think they use them on us?