Never happen, unless Tenet comes out and says he proved to GW and the rest at the White House, that there weren't any WMD. Who cares if a lowly investigator in the CIA told someone he believed there weren't any WMD, because for everyone who says there weren't, there might be one, five or ten, who say they thought there were.
What you don't realize is that, while you are squarely convinced that it was the right thing to do, there are people on the fence on this topic.
or could sanctions contain Saddam, and his cronies, reliably enough and long enough, such that war wasn't the only option.
That's part of the problem. Saner people, nations, the UN majority, thought that it could be done and should be done...indeed results show that they were right.
There is no way anyone could trust Saddam, no matter how often he pleaded innocence, and that the sanctions would have to be so burdensome to be reliable, they weren't an option; even for a short period of time, much less the 40 - 50 yrs it seemed like Saddam and his sons would control Iraq.
Your speak as though we have the situation in hand. As it is now, the outcome in Iraq is anything but certain, given the political and tangible power of the theocratic majority, further contrasted with the regional interests of the remaining minority groups.
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