Hawkmoon, you are kidding yourself if you don't think another President could have sold this war.
Sorry Steeny.. So long as France and Russia were being "bought off" by Saddam, there was no chance of a "use of force" resolution coming out of the UN..
Go back and research how France has done just about everything possible to prevent any UN resolution authorizing use of force...
They almost abstained on the resolutions authorizing "all means necessary" to remove Saddam from Kuwait in 1991, trying to push their own version of a peace treaty that would have left Iraqi forces in place.
And as I mentioned previously, France was the only nation to actually have the gall to state that Saddam had been disarmed... No one else agreed (except maybe the Russians) and they shut up...
And France HAS BEEN ISOLATED. We got them on the record as stating they would oppose any use of force resolution against Saddam.
And now we have them on the record stating they will "support" US troops if Saddam uses weapons he isn't even suppose to have, let alone deploy.. And Villepin is trying to horn in on post-Saddam rebuilding, claiming the UN has a role to play there...
It may not seem like France is isolated, but let Saddam attempt to use chemical weapons (unsuccessfully, I pray), and France and Russia will look like incredible schmucks....
And the post-Saddam "debriefings" with media from around the world describing the horrendous fear they constantly lived in, the atrocities, and the corruption, all will build up to the point where the world recognizes that the US did what was required.
We'll see which one of our scenarios will come to pass...
Hawk |
