Yes Carol, and if they'd finished the job in 1990, two things would have happened.

1. Saddam would have been removed, and his removal would have been clearly, and unequivocally justified. The whole world would have backed THAT.

2. The thousands of Iraqi citizens, who were primed to rise up in support of the Coalition, would have formed a cadre of western support, and the foundation of a democratic Iraqi government.

In other words JOB DONE to the satisfaction of all concerned except Saddam and his cronies.

What actually happened? They wimped out, hung the Iraqi resistance out to dry, and went home!

Then they went back, on the flimsiest of trumped up excuses, and were SURPRISED that the Iraqis didn't want them there. The few of the resistance fortunate enough not to have been murdered by Saddam after 1990 don't have any faith in the Coalition. Small wonder!

When it comes to winning hearts and minds, Bush and Blair make Attila the Hun look like a philanthropist.

BTW, I have to add that our Mr. B. is a worse liar than yours, having seen a memo that showed that, as early as 2002, he knew Bush planned war, and was fixing the facts about WMDs to justify it. So there's no way our lying b*****d can claim to have been misled by faulty intelligence. Thinking about it, neither can yours claim to have based his final decision on intelligence at all.

We let them have these powers, either by choice or inaction, so I guess we carry the shame also.

Don T.