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To: Alighieri who wrote (182498)	2/12/2004 9:21:14 PM
From: brian1501	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575426

Yackety, yack... the proof is that there are no weapons there. And the UN has been taking heat from him for a job well done. Keep your head in the sand then. Even Ted admits that the only reason access was granted at all was an army on his border. This is not the mark of a willing participant in inspections. The fact is that for inspections to work AT ALL, Iraq had to be willing, and even eager to comply with them (see South Africa). You call the inspections a job well done, but in reality, they were the best the UN could do in a situation doomed to failure. He was given an ultimatum, he continued to defy the UN, and the US and the UK had the mandate to fix the problem. It has been proven many times that Iraq was clearly in "material breach" of 1441, so the war was completely justified. Figuring out for sure if he really did still have the WMD is an interesting exercise in completeness, but is really beside the point. 2) continued and even improved had that army been removed Again, probably not... You even admit here that the inspections wouldn't have worked. So the US needs to park an army on Iraq's border so that Hussein has the privilege of continuing to string the UN along, while he brutalizes his people? How long were you willing to "kick the can" as Powell said?