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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You're right about #1. My bad for being imprecise.
Blix may have "assumed" he would find weapons, and yet there is a difference between the public statements he made and those Bush made. And there were lots of reasons for the sanctions, not just WMD. Recall that the first war was prompted by SH's invasion of Kuwait, not by his use of chemical weapons.
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I'm a little unclear (1) that you don't think the war was justified or (2) the costs outweigh the benefits?
Seems to me that (1) can be justified under 1441 alone, without all of the other proferred justifications. If (2), it seems to me that it is too early for that calculation to be made. In reading reprints of the NYT articles from 1945/46, many believed the costs of rebuilding Japan and German did not outweigh the benefits either.
