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lordjeebus,
While you're googling around, you will hopefully pull up the stories right before the war in regards to the so-called uncooperation of the Iraqi's.
That is, the inspectors were claiming that they were receiving the most cooperation that they had ever had before, the US government was giving them shitty intel, and they wanted more time.
The US admin stated that we couldn't wait, we were in too much danger, and we knew exactly where the weapons were. Subsequently, we moved the timeframe up and declared a new demand: Saddam had to not only give up the weapons, he had to leave.
It's interesting to speculate what would have happened had Saddam given up the weapons he supposedly had. Then the atrocities we are so inflamed about now would have never even come into public discourse and he would have continued to rule in whatever fashion he chose. It wasn't until after he decided to thwart the will of the US that he became the boogeyman--we were going to let him do whatever the hell he wanted as long as it didn't bother us.
So, you know, what can you do...
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