OK, since your still here and not, apparently, a troll...
...said that the USA's basis for going to war is thin indeed, and called it a slap in the face to the United Nations weapons inspectors.
How is this possible, since the weapons inspectors had been expelled from Iraq for several years prior to the threat of war?
Much of what has been claimed about WMDs has proven to be sheer nonsense.
Proven!? I have yet to see the poof that the evidence was nonsense. Saddam had the delivery systems (shells, rockets, and bombs, all found stockpiled but unfilled). The only missing item is the chem or bio toxins themselves. 95% of the Bush administrations claim has in fact been proven true. The development programs were ongoing, and delivery systems were in place.
Trollremark does not bother me, its part of our traditional stories.
How is this possible, since the weapons inspectors had been expelled from Iraq for several years prior to the threat of war, you asked?
Well, for example the UN (sec. council!) received what was considered a rather unusual frank account of the various programs etc. in the time leading up to the war by Iraq. As of day one of the war US w. inspectors were on the ground but has returned home already.
No one argues that Iraq did not have! wmds and delivery systems and still to some respect have but the question is (and has been in other threads) was the accounts given by Powell & Co before the UN etc. correct? And I don´t mean semantically.
I argue that the claims is not 95 percent true. And the missing bio and toxins are important. If stockpiles etc. are found I will admit I was wrong and shut up, but even Rice/Way etc. acknowlegdges that the claims might have been false (the reason is not the issue).
What I see as the main problem is that no one from the US dares to say, ok so we were not completely wright in that respect but the war was just anyway. Blair has done so but he is the true spinmesister lefty bulls****er of Europe and his credibility is zero. I think that the longer you drag it out the more trouble the whole mess will cause in the election this fall.