And has successfully evaded them for 12 years with no additional consequences. So when he says he will allow them, what we really have to look forward to is years of BS, games, ruses, denials, propaganda, and accusations from him.
In fact, the inspection regime, before we pulled out in 1998, had achieved significant results. It was a change in strategy, and was a mistake, and followed the embarrassing revelation that the inspectorate had been infiltrated and its purposes corrupted by the CIA.
The prospects for the effectiveness of a renewed inspection regime incorporating the significant changes that have been made in the technology of detection in the last few years are worth not dismissing, imo.
I have the eerie feeling that there is an agenda we aren't being told about by the administration. I haven't seen the evidence that unilateral invasion not supported by most Americans or any of our allies except, sort of, one, is the only way we can be safe from Saddam -- in fact, I fear that giving him nothing to lose may be the most dangerous thing we can do; and I definitely don't have the feeling that this invasion will make us safer from Islamofascism. In fact, the opposite is my fear. |
