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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Hussein had many, many chances to allow the verification, and stymied it each time over a period of 10 years. He showed no signs of changing, apparently believing that no one, including Bush (most curiously) would, in fact, call his bluff. Why he made that grave miscalculation we'll likely never know, but he did.
I'm pretty confident that given unfettered access to the country we would have found any WMD currently existing. In fact, I think that last 18 months have proven that definitively. Why Hussein required war to get us to that result is beyond me.
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Perhgaps I need to rephrase. Say SH stopped taking the crazy pills and actually let the inspectors go everywhere we thought they needed to go to verify what we have seemingly verified since the war. Do you believe that there was a possibility that Bush would have said "OK, no WMDs, Iraq must stay disarmed, but we can bring our boys home"?
This is probably a stupid hypo, but at any rate I think our invasion was inevitable by the time UN passed its reso and the inspectors went in. I'm curious if the admin's supporters feel the same way.
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