>All of the reports I have read state that the missiles tested exceeded their permitted range of 150km (~90 miles) by 33km (~20 miles). Iraq was complaining that the missile test was done without a guidance system, thus significantly reducing it's weight & extending it's range. Their contention is that with the guidance system installed, the range of the missile would be within the permitted range.
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>An extra 20 miles hardly seems worth going to war over, the range of the missiles is still not enough to reach Kuwait without moving them into the no-fly zone that is daily being bombed by the US+UK, it is highly likely they would be noticed & destroyed before they became a threat to the troops building up in that area.
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>With the increasingly belligerent tone of the US (according to some reports yesterday as saying that the decision to go to war has already been made & is now out of the hands of the UN, the only decision the UN now has to make is whether or not to support the US) is it very suprising that Iraq is refusing to disarm.

Maybe the debate would be better served if you specify under which conditions you would go to war.