Resolution 687 simply laid out how Iraq would make reparations after the Gulf War. It had to disarm and it had to pay back Kuwait. The only way it could be used to justify an invasion was if Iraq did not disarm. That was precisely why the UN inspectors were there in the first place!! They were trying to see if Iraq was complying with 687 and, as far as they could see, yes.

Resolution 1441 was introduced by the US and the UK--the very countries seeking to instigate a military confrontation and occupation of Iraq. It lied to the world that Iraq was not living up to 687 when, in fact, all the evidence (or rather lack of) says that it Iraq did indeed comply.

Nor did any of the 15 or so countries that unanimously passed 1441 agree in any way that the resolution allowed the US to make war--and that opinion was shared by the US and stated outright by John Negroponte.

So if Bush used 1441 to go to war, it was one made up of his own lies--er, I mean--"bad intelligence." It is mystifying that a document that boldly asserted that Iraq was rearming with WMD and blowing off 687 would need to be "interpreted" by the US as a case for a preemptive strike. It hadn't yet been proven and Bush called off the inspections before they were finished because the finding were not going to support 1441. He had to strike right then and there or miss his window or the UN would have concluded there was no evidence for 1441 and killed it.

He had no case for using 687 and 1441 as one for war. It was not simply an interpretive error--it was blatant twisting of intelligence specifically performed in order for the US to have a pretense for invading Iraq and overthrowing its sovereign govt.