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Originally Posted by roachboy
powerclown: your post glides over the fact that the un weapons inspections teams were actually in iraq, searching for weapons and not finding them--with iraq finally co-operating under the threat of military action. i actually had no problem with the bush people ratcheting up that pressure--the place where things fell apart was in the rush to war, going outside the framework without adequate justification.
the administration was wrong. why is this so difficult to accept?
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The key word here is "UN INSPECTION TEAMS". U-N. As in United Nations. As in, the same weasels in bed with Hussein all along. What incentive would they have for finding WMD that the whole world already knew were there?! Why would passengers on a billion dollar gravy train want to cut short their vacation??
The UN Inspections were bureaucratic, political hide & seek bullshit. What the reality was, was that Iraq had WMD because they already used them, and everybody knew it. And the UN was in a bind because they didn't know what to do about it. They didn't want to authorize a war because they stood to lose too much, both monetarily and politically, because they knew that America would have to be the one in command of the war operation, which, to some certain, irrational countries would be an embarrasment to them. I say the UN should have been United (as in, true to their namesake) in their goal of ridding this strategically important area of the world of a crazed, aggressive and unpredictable dictator. But, there you have it, nobody said that chaos isn't the norm in this world, and always has been and always will be.
Now, the UN is only making the situation worse by not helping out in Iraq in this critically important time - when positive change is possible - and if/when the shit hits the fan and the country breaks down and explodes into violence and civil war and the region and the world are once again under the threat of a possibly even more aggressive, fundamentalist theocracy, the united nations of the "United Nations" will only have themselves to blame for their petty inaction.