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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (141663)7/28/2004 1:53:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
Your statement that it took the threat of an invasion to get full and basically unfettered inspections started again has NOTHING to do with the point that if Bush had waited longer before invading, his wmd rationale for invading would have turned to dust in his hands or the point that Bush "hurried to invade" because he saw that coming. That was, as you'll recall, my point.

And your point remains obtuse. The inspections were not unfettored. The whole inspections racket was designed to find nothing and buy time.That's why they put the good ole UN boy, the easily fooled Hans Blix, in charge of it instead of something who might have dug. Every single person knew that the UN inspections would take forever and find nothing before they started. Everyone. That was their purpose. It was part of the negotiations at the UN for another resolution. During the course of these negotations, France made it clear that they would NEVER vote for any resolution with more teeth than "serious consequence" no matter what Saddam did. They said so. Don't you think Saddam noticed? He had paid for it and was counting on it!

Thus Bush was outfoxed at the UN. Having put WMDS as the main plank for the war on legal advice (it was not the real reason), he had few defenses when Colin Powell was sandbagged and double-dealt by de Villepin. He could have gone in when he did, waited out the summer for the same result, and gone in with even lesser political momentum, or he could have crawled home and left Saddam triumphant. That was the choice.
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