hmmmm. if memory serves, we were bogged down in the freaking security council trying to beg the damn french to sign off on some sort of resolution that wasn't an absolute sell out.
so much for "rush to war". if kerry wants to criticize bush for the missing explosives, he has no one to blame but himself; if the president wasn't bending over backwards trying to make the multilateralists in the congress happy, we'd have caught saddam flat footed with this stuff, and who knows what else.
Bingo! I hate this notion of a "Rush to War." A year of giving the UN opportunity to impede a timely destruction of Saddam's regime haunts us to this day. Was the IAEA even allowed in to Iraq prior to GWB putting 150K US soldiers on the border? Our troops would still be out in the desert fighting scorpions and scraping sand out of their Abram tanks if the UN had its way. Arch nemesis France probably donated the trucks to Saddam to move the explosives and WMD's to Syria.