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Originally posted by Lurch@Oct 6 2004, 04:33 PM
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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.
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Exactly how did diplomacy not work??? It is painfully obvious that the inspections stopped Saddam from getting weapons. When you fail to catch someone red-handed, there are two reasons: 1. The inspections failed or 2. There was nothing to catch.
The logic against the weapons inspections and diplomacy is very twisted, IMO. Clearly, it was VERY effective, and the war has proven this out. Just b/c the inspections were fraught with difficulties does not invalidate the process. If this is the standard you hold things to, its clear the war is not working either.
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How would you know the inspections and sanctions worked?
He never complied fully. There was no open transparency. There were no independent interviews with Iraqi scientists and their families in an outside country as required by UN mandate, as one example.
Vladimir Putin told Bush directly that Saddam had WMD and would use them. The President of Egypt and the King of Jordan told General Tommy Franks Saddam had WMD and would use them. Saddam built a false image that killed him in the end.
We can see now there was no "gathering threat" but there was no corroboration there wasn't either, which appeared to be a goal of Saddam.
That doesn't excuse the end result, by the way. The end fact is there was nothing there.
Cowperson