Boab, you're not the first to have picked up something from my first post that wasn't there. I've read it again to see what may have caused confusion. Perhaps I should explain that "article" referred to Article 13 of the Geneva convention, which Bobert had cited in a preceding post. Thus, if I may paraphrase myself: the US admin were quick to condemn Saddam for flouting the convention in one instance and quick to flout it themselves in another. It was the US/UK axis and not me that thought the regime-change objective good enough for a war.

Amos, is there any reason why we should trust the US to set up a democracy? It had no qualms about knocking one over in Chile - Kissinger's explanation for which was spinechilling in its cynicism, and should have sparked a domestic revolution!