BB:

Arne,

[Arne]: "As Blix's team reported, claims of remanent SCUDs were chicken$hit...."


Ditto- no evidence.

Here ya go. Enjoy your McIntelligence....

And you have NEVER answered my question.

How will YOU explain that you would rather have all those people dead than ask that Saddam comply with his obligations?

I think I did. Tons of dead in Iraq right now (and more and more every day). You need to balance that against the hypothetical dead in your "fallacy of bifurcation" scenario of "doing nothing" or the same under the various alternative scenarios, such as when Saddam agress to step down, inspectors or U.N. peacekeepers keep watch, etc.... All I can say is that the only real deaths we know about are the ones we brought on; the rest is just speculation. And if we hadn't invaded, even if there were deaths, they wouldn't have been of our doing, and in my mind that counts for a bit as well....

Proud of all the dead that NOT making Saddam comply for all those years caused? Proud of encouraging a war?

I think you're mistaken here, Bruce: My name is Arne, not Donald "shake Saddam's hand" Rumsfeld or the Reagan/Bush I administration or the Republicans in Congress that refused to put sanctions on Iraq back at the end of the '80s because he was "our guy" ... during an equally pointeless pissing contest with the Evil Iranians (who apparently were nonetheless not sufficiently evil to preclude giving them Hawk missiles, if you take the Reagan view of things....).

But, believe me, Bruce, if I do ever encourage a war, and it turns to s**** like this, I'll be one of the first to apologise for my mistake afterwards instead of saying "Lah, lah, lah, I can't heeeaaaarrrr yyyoooouuuuuu!" and refusing to take responsibility for the consequences of my acts. Fair 'nuff???

Clear now?

Cheers,