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To: epicure who wrote (451)3/25/2003 9:03:40 AM
From: JSwanson  Read Replies (1) of 7832
 
12 years of doing nothing doesn't seem like a reasonable pretext for war (to me).

The world agrees that he has not lived up to prior resolutions and in fact continued to build his WMD programs. You have obviously not read the Sec Council Resolutions pertaining to Iraq's (ie Saddam's) WMD programs. You might want to read some of it:

caabu.org

From 1441:
Recalling that in its resolution 687 (1991) the council declared that a ceasefire would be based on acceptance by Iraq of the provisions of that resolution, including the obligations on Iraq contained therein,

What good is a UN resolution if the UN doesn't back the language of the resolution with the force promised in the resolution? It does no good. It makes the Security Council impotent. Do you think Saddam takes the UN seriously. The only times he has grudgingly complied in the past is when the US forced him to the by promising military force.

Further, left unchecked, Saddam WOULD have continued his quest for WMD and he WOULD have used them. It is not reasonable to wait for a lunatic to have the WMD before you decide to act on him. The potential loss of life from the deployment of a chemical, biological or nuclear weapon, even probability weighted, is much to great.

I think we could have waited.

For what? Saddam is the one he lied to the world, oppressed that majority of the Iraqi population. Had he complied with the original resolution, there would have been zero attacks after the Gulf War and the economic sanctions would have been lifted earlier and to a greater degree. Saddam created this, not Clinton or Bush.
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