Just love the shouting with all the bolding. And a good morning to you, Hawk.
Just as much as we all love the same old "I just wonder why the UN doesn't enforce its resolutions against the Israelis" tripe, John...
I hope the highlighting and bolding will help you remember the facts so you now possess a better understanding of how and why the UNSC resolutions against Iraq are FAR different those issued under Chapter VI of the UN Charter..
After all, it's only been addressed on this thread UMPTEEN times, yet you STILL cling to that tired argument in hopes of winning sympathy for your position.
If I understand the first part of this post, it's that you are certain the Iraqis had wmds, had used the period after 98 to restart their programs, and were such an imminent threat to the US we had to attack this past spring rather than wait for the completion of the UN inspection cycle.
Excuse me? Do you even know what the UNSC inspection "cycle" was? Do you know the difference between an "inspection" of weapons which Iraq had until December 8th to either reveal, or account for, and an "investigation" whereby UNMOVIC personnel were forced to ONCE AGAIN play detective in the face of an uncooperative Baathist regime?
Inspections are to observe declared material, account for it, and arrange for it's proper destruction. Anything further is an invesigation.. And that's NOT what 1441 was about.
1441 declared that Iraq was in material breach. It provided 30 days for Iraq to "come clean", not to recommence "business as usual". Saddam's regime failed to do that and made fools of the UNMOVIC personnel.
If that's a reasonably accurate picture of your argument, it raises the question of just how you knew this.
Are you calling the UNSCOM "inspectors" liars, John? They CLEARLY showed that Iraq was not in compliance. They discovered an internal Iraqi document that showed 6,000 chemical warheads which were claimed to have been used against Iran, had not been used. That document was confiscated and Saddam refused to cooperate further after that discovery.
Again... do you call the UNSCOM personnel "liars", John??
Being in material breach was justification for ending Saddam's regime. The discovery of Biological weapons documents in 1995 was a material breach and cause for re-initiation of hostilities.
We have MORE THAN SUFFCIENT "casus belli" based upon lack of compliance and cooperation. We just didn't have the guts to back up these Chapter VII resolutions with action until Bush forced the issue in order to restore some semblance of UN credibility.
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