All of what you have posted is utterly irrelevant.
FACT: Even as Bush was ordering the UN to pull everyone out, the UN / IAEA inspectors were pleading for the time needed to complete the job.
Here's a timely reminder...
By MARK HUME
Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - Page A15
Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER -- The invasion of Iraq has bred terrorism and made the world a more dangerous place, says Hans Blix, former UN weapons inspector.
Mr. Blix, in Vancouver for a meeting of the international Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, reflected yesterday on the lessons learned in Iraq, as U.S. troops continued to battle in the streets of Fallujah.
He said Iraq was a dangerous place under the "vile" leadership of Saddam Hussein, but it wasn't a threat to the United States -- and didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
"The world's a better place [without Saddam], but it's not a safer place," Mr. Blix said. "Instead of stopping it, there has been a breeding of terrorism."
United Nations weapons inspectors under Mr. Blix's direction searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, but were unable to say explicitly that the country didn't have nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
"I could not rule out that there were weapons," he said. "If we had had inspections for a few months more . . .we would then have reported back [to the UN] there aren't any."
Mr. Blix said the United States and Britain acted on misleading intelligence reports that were caused by "group think."
He was commenting on reports yesterday that Iran might be prepared to give up its nuclear program in return for a trade deal.
Mr. Blix said if the agreement is to succeed long term, a pact ensuring that country's security will have to be reached.
"Security concerns are behind almost every nuclear program," he said.
An estimated 40 countries in the world are capable of developing nuclear weapons.
To convince them not to go down that road, he said, the incentive to acquire the weapons has to be removed "so that governments and . . . non-state actors do not feel a need for the weapons."
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