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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction@Oct 6 2004, 07:55 AM
The trick was to change the diplomatic approach. The fact that UN inspectors were begging for more time in Iraq and claimed things were moving along, if slowly, shows that diplomacy could have worked. Too bad every statement and action Bush took made it practically impossible for Iraq to comply. There came a point when well before the war, everyone knew it was going to happen and there was nothing IRaq could have done to avoid it. Obviously at that point, why would they comply other than to buy time?
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The fact is that when ever the inspectors would want to visit a location, they where recieved with "No, not right now". Or if they where given access to inspect a location, on one instance at least, they saw flat bed trucks leaving the complex, with equipment for enriching uranium.
Evidence of WMD's production was found as late as 1997, 6 years after the first inspectors where given access to Iraq. That is also 6 years after Saddam was forbidden from producing WMD's. And the only reason they where able to determine this, was becuase a high ranking officer, defected to the US and told them exactly where to look.
With Saddam, diplomicy never would of worked. It didnt work for 10+ years between the 2 wars in Iraq. There was no evidence that it was ever going to work.
He was just giving enough to appease the world community. At the same time, not enough to for the inspectors to actually determine anything.
He set up the US to look like the bad person in this. And it seems to have worked.