>That particular coin has another side- if the UN Inspectors had not been labelled "incompetent", "useless", "French" and all the other names for failing to find all the WMD under their noses, this boy and the others- the infant and 10-year-old laid face to face on the pavement, for example- would now be asleep at home with their families. If you have ever had children, you'll get this.

I do not have any children that I know of. The point, and I have written this repeatedly in this forum, of the U.N inspectors was to verify Iraqi compliance with U.N. Resolution 1441. It was not to find WMDs. By everyone's account, even Hans Blix's and the French's, Iraq did not totally comply. The small amount of compliance they did provide came only as U.S. and British troops started massing on their border.

Ask any U.N. inspector... you cannot find WMDs in a country the size of California if the government doesn't want them to be found.