Lack of due diligence does not get you out of the deception part. No weasling allowed on the lied part either. If you don't like it, just ask yourself if any business contract with that level of "facts" would stand in court.
And just ask how many search warrants are issued based upon probable cause, only to discover nothing.
Those are totally legal, if the authorities acted in good faith and truly believed that the contraband they were looking for would be found there..
Furthermore, Saddam was in violation of his "probation". He was harboring terrorists, and acting to coordinate terrorist activities, all in violation of the terms of his "probation" (UNSC 687). We have IRREFUTABLE PROOF of this. I personally saw the accounting slips for purchasing vehicles to be turned into carbombs to be used against Saudi Arabia.
And the "court" of the UNSC had declared Saddam's regime in violation of his "probation" and gave him a specified period of time to come into compliance.
The war to finally bring down Saddam's government was no more "illegal" than was the war that evicted his forces from Kuwait. BOTH were authorized to use "all necessary means" to enforce those respective wars (despite what the French and Russians might have you believe).
You can't call the war illegal.. You can call it a mistake.. immoral.. unjustifiable, but you cannot call it illegal.
They should have listen to Scott Ritter, he was more accurate. Accuracy counts, BS does not.
Oh yeah.. the guy who took $400K from an Iraqi agent, and later was caught red-handed conducting his sexual predation online in a police directed "honey trap"?
And wasn't he the same guy who, in 1998, demanded that the Clinton administration be prepared to use military force to make Saddam's regime comply with UNSCOM inspections?
Why don't you ask Scott Ritter where those 6,000 chemical warheads are that the UNSCOM inspectors found documentation on in 1998 (which led Saddam to cease his cooperation)??
Yeah.. real credible...
I was involved with the people who prepared the Duelfer report for the Iraq Survey Group. And none of the analysts I spoke with could account for them. They just chose not to address the topic.
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