Saddam was supposed to account for his WMD, as per the UN resolutions and he refused to do that.
He claimed he destroyed the WMD and this proves that he didn't.
If you had been following any of it, there are also tons of documents showing that he has been working on WMD AND working with Al Qaeda - a lethal combination.
We will never know what catastrophy President Bush may have saved us from, by getting rid of Saddam.
"Saddam was supposed to account for his WMD, as per the UN resolutions and he refused to do that. "
I doubt he really even knew or cared about these particular worthless munitions. All the good stuff that he knew or cared about, assuming it existing (and I suspect it did) has been moved or hidden.
"He claimed he destroyed the WMD and this proves that he didn't. "
As a technicality, I suppose that's right. But I don't think he was intentionally lying about these particular worthless pieces of crap. And I think most people understand this, so trying to hang one's hat on this is bad PR for Republicans. It just looks bad. There's a logical reason why the Administration has not tried to make that case.
::If you had been following any of it, there are also tons of documents showing that he has been working on WMD AND working with Al Qaeda - a lethal combination.
That's fine, but it has nothing to do with these old degraded munitions that people keep hyping.
"We will never know what catastrophy President Bush may have saved us from, by getting rid of Saddam."
That's precisely right. And I think my original post made clear that Bush had to do this and that Saddam's continued existance after 9-11 was simply untenable for a host of reasons, whether or not our incompetent intelligence agencies were able to find any convincing evidence of his covert involvement.
text of UN SC Res 1441 and Blix's ltr to Saddams "adviser":
http://www.un.int/usa/sres-iraq.htm
index of all UN SC Res (these are pdf):
http://www.un.org/documents/scres.htm
Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html
Excellent post.