When you consider ALL the Demo candidates, including Clark, wanted to get the UN involved, i.e. give inspections time to work, they would have had our troops still baking in the sun in Kuwait and still spending US$, with nothing to show for it. They would then, still likely end up invading Iraq.
When you realize that even as conquers, we have yet to find (the well hidden or well developed build plans of) WMD, the UN inspection teams would never have found ANYTHING to let us remove Saddam. It seems that Saddam's strategy was correct for staying in power, except for the French not being able to control the table.
I still think Iraq would have developed into the new French Foreign Legion if we did not intercede.