BB, I simply do not believe that Saddam was ever again capable of being a credible threat to anyone outside his own borders after the Gulf War was over. His days of being a military threat to his neighbours were long over in 2003. Therefore any posturing on the part of the USA, the UK, the U.N. Security Council or anyone else to that effect was just a lot of smoke-blowing and cynical propaganda calculated to fool the American public and (hopefully) world opinion into support an unprovoked invasion of Iraq. Seems like they fooled you.

It was total BS, and that is now obvious. It was even obvious at the time to most populations in the world, but not to at least half the American population, who will usually believe just about anything they are told by Big Daddy....for awhile...until it turns out it really wasn't true.

I laugh at the bogus PR campaign leveled at Iraq in 2002-2003. It was the most classic case of the aggressor labelling its next helpless victim as the threat that I have ever seen in the modern era. It was ludicrous, inane, transparent, and outrageous. It equals the utter gall of people such as Hitler and Goebbels, who always claimed to be defending Germany too, if you recall...not to mention their idea that they were defending "western civilization". It's typical for such liars to pretend that they are defending decent values when they gobble up small countries.

Lawyers' technicalities and legal games, BB, do not excuse unprovoked and illegal invasions of other countries. And that's all that the noise at the U.N. and in Washington in 2003 was...word games conducted in order to fool and manipulate public opinion and stick a fig leaf on a US/UK policy of naked aggression.

A superpower whose economic and military clout gives them a means of blackmailing just about any small country in the world will always be able to cobble together some kind of wretched "coalition of the willing" (ha ha) to tag along as it does its dirty work. Hitler, for example, had Rumania, Bulgaria, Italy, Finland, Hungary, and the Croatians as allies...my, my, really confers legitimacy on the Reich, doesn't it? So nice to have a "coalition of the willing" on your side. ;-) The Soviets had all their East bloc satellites. England had its commonwealth.

Such coalitions prove nothing about moral right and wrong. They only demonstrate the effects and uses of grand imperial power.