Exactly. Especially because of the mixed signals we were getting from the inspectors. Was it in 1998 that Blix (or the other guy) suggested very strongly that there were some stockpiles still in Iraq that were either not inspected or inspected and not disposed of? Sadam refused to allow the inspectors in after that.
Then all of a sudden the inspector said Iraq was clean, though we were still unable to confirm that and Saddam still wouldn't let the inspectors in. I think that was about the time Saddam hired the inspector to write a book.
What Blix said and Clinton's reaction to it is something that is supposed to be forgotten...as if though it is not relevent or germaine now. Fact is, we didn't need the WMD issue IMHO...we should have put Saddam down long before for his violation of the agreements he signed to end the fighting the first time. But not doing so, we emboldened him and every other tin-horn around the world.