Bearedbruce:

"What in the world do you think chemical warheads are? "

They were old munitions left over from the Iran-Iraq war. So they are chemical weapons, but they are NOT the ones monkey-boy and poodle said they were after.


"You can lie all you want, but a WMD is a WMD is a WMD."

And the Americans should know - they have more than anyone else (chemical, biological and nuclear). Depleted uranium warheads anyone? Nasty if a toddler picks one of those up.

Teribus:

"Because surely as eggs are eggs, if the US and UK had not acted when they did he would most certainly still be in power in Baghdad today."

Pure speculation. If the UN Weapons inspectors had been given the time to do their job and the UN had the chance to act, things may have worked out differently. The UN may however, have spent a lot longer trying to sort out what to do, but sure as eggs are eggs, nobody could speculate accurately what would have happened if the UN had been allowed to continue mthe process under internatioanl law.

Certainly, if Saddam had been left in place, there would be thousands of dead innocent Iraqis, torture and rape of innocents in the prisons he built by his soldiers, imprisonment without trial by the military, brutal suppression of resistance with overwhelming firepower in built-up areas, troops and commanders allowed immunity from prosecution for war crimes etc etc.

At least Al-Quaeda have a foothold in Iraq now to boot too. Good call George!