[Jolly Rodgers]

That's reasonable. If he were to make strides to come back into compliance with that surrender agreement, would we lose our justification?

[Inyokern]

If he were to make strides to come back into compliance with that surrender agreement, would we lose our justification?

Not strides. Complete compliance.

[okie01]

"If [Saddam] were to make strides to come back into compliance with that surrender agreement, would we lose our justification?"

Agreeing to inspections would probably be irrelevant to the case against him.

In all liklihood, our actions against Iraq should be taken in the light of self-defense...and in retaliation for an unprovoked attack with a weapon of mass destruction. I.e., anthrax.

Whether Saddam agrees to inspections or not is immaterial.