>Or rewrite history as we see fit as well, apparently. When was this alleged cooperation with the inspectors? Jan. 2003 Hans Blix stated, "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it"

>This was after 11 years. If you can't be trusted, even after 11 years, to comply with UN demands what would be a reasonable "drop dead" date be? And more importantly, how would it be enforced... because it surely wasn't until we moved in.

>And how could anyone call us trigger happy? We waited patiently for 11 years -- while a despotic dictator continually flaunted world-wide accepted sanctions before finally taking action, and you're calling us "trigger happy???"

>Again, as I have stated in the past... shame on *all* world leaders for not taking action sooner. We *all* knew what Saddam was doing. It should have been stopped long before 2003.


The thing that kills me is Saddam pretended like he had them, and acted like he had them. Someone called his bluff and he lost. Unfortunately many innocent people died becuase of this war.

But it doesn't take away from the fact the this was perhaps the biggest intelligence mistake in history.