Not strides. Complete compliance.
He cannot come back into complete compliance on his own. He can request that inspectors come in, but we have to agree to send them. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't really expect him to ever meet the terms he agreed to. He's had far too much success at playing games with us to quit now.
I guess my point is that when we lay the list of threats out and prioritize them as to seriousness, Iraq is not on the top of the list. However, there are some pretty serious oil/financial issues at stake there which I believe are what is kindling the motivation of the Bush administration, rather than security from terrorism for US citizens.