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• We destroyed our logic before invading (Score:2)

  by Ovid (2709)

  Over in Great Britain, Tony Blair is taking a lot of heat because those weapons were the primary reason for our unpopular invasion. Over here in "love it or leave it" America, you don't hear a lot about it. Colin Powell cites plagiarized intelligence reports (which Britain later admitted) and forged documents (that no one claims to know the origin of) and yet no seems to care.

  So we're going after Saddam for the weapons but we couldn't find them. Eh, maybe we were going after him for his role in 9/11.
  • Re:We destroyed our logic before invading (Score:1)

    by jordan (120)

    The justification to invade Iraq was that Iraq didn't live up to their commitment to 'fully, proactively and immediately' disarm as required by Resolution 1441. Everyone who signed on to Resolution 1441, the entire UN Security council, was clear on the fact that Iraq did possess such weapons.

    It was clear that they were playing games with the UN Inspectors. It's also clear from what we are finding that they had an active program to develop or research WMDs.

    The fact that they may have been busy destroying
    • Re:We destroyed our logic before invading (Score:2)

      by schwern (1528)

      It was clear that they were playing games with the UN Inspectors.

      You don't invade a country because they're playing parliamentary games.

      Certainly, if Iraq had no WMD, they could have fully cooperated with the UN Inspectors and made a mockery of the US and probably gotten the sanctions lifted in no time.

      I'd love to see how the US would react to UN weapons inspectors and what sort of reception they'd get (and, of course, our subcequent invasion of ourself based on their shoddy treatment). Just th
      • Re:We destroyed our logic before invading (Score:1)

        by jordan (120)

        • I'd love to see how the US would react to UN weapons inspectors and what sort of reception they'd get (and, of course, our subcequent invasion of ourself based on their shoddy treatment).

        The US didn't lose a war where one of the conditions of Armistice was full accounting and destruction of their Weapons of Mass Destruction. Iraq signed on to conditions of inspections in 1992, thus no sovereignty was being violated. We were just enforcing the terms of that Armistice.

        No matter how hard you try to spin
        • Re:We destroyed our logic before invading (Score:3, Insightful)

          by schwern (1528)

          I'd love to see how the US would react to UN weapons inspectors and what sort of reception they'd get (and, of course, our subcequent invasion of ourself based on their shoddy treatment).

          The US didn't lose a war where one of the conditions of Armistice was full accounting and destruction of their Weapons of Mass Destruction.

          You miss the point. You put forth Iraq playing games with UN inspectors as an admission of guilt. Consider the hypothectical situation of UN weapon inspectors in the US. Yo
          • Re:We destroyed our logic before invading (Score:1)

            by pudge (1)

            You put forth Iraq playing games with UN inspectors as an admission of guilt.
            
            I don't. I think it is very fishy, but not necessarily a sign of guilt.
            
            Consider the hypothectical situation of UN weapon inspectors in the US. You know the US would scream bloody murder if they came into our country, regardless of the reason.
            
            So? Then we would be wrong too. Look, Iraq was stated as guilty by the UN Security Council, and that guilty verdict was reaffirmed more than a dozen times in a dozen years; Iraq itself
            • Re:We destroyed our logic before invading (Score:2)

              by pudge (1) on 2003.06.02 7:19 (#20702) Homepage Journal

              You put forth Iraq playing games with UN inspectors as an admission of guilt.
              
              I don't. I think it is very fishy, but not necessarily a sign of guilt.
              
              To clarify ... yes, it IS absolute guilt under Resolution 1441, Resolution 687, etc. Iraq was guilty, without any doubt, of breaching those resolutions, which Resolution 1441 said would result in serious consequences, and Resolution 687 said would require the UN Security Council to take further steps (which it refused to do).
              
              Iraq was absolutely guilty of breaching those resolutions in severe ways, and action by the UN in response to it was not merely warranted, but obligated.
              
              But, I took it to mean you mean "guilt" in regard to currently possessing weapons. And again, yes, their playing games, while a serious breach of UN resolutions obligating a response, did not necessarily mean they actually possessed weapons, it only meant that the responsible and logical thing to do is to assume that they have the weapons, for practical purposes, in the absence of the required cooperation.
              

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