Guest TIA,

Instead of changing what I said to something you can make fun of:

"Those who protested US enforcement of the UNR (and previous ceasefire) are to my mind far more guilty of contributing to the war than those of us who, for whatever reasons, voted for Bush.

Had the demonstrations been for Saddam to comply, or had they even ALLOWED those critical of Saddam to participate ( I gave examples in past thread of them not being allowed to march) IMHO the invasion would not have been needed, and there would be a lot fewer dead. "



Feel free to OPPOSE the invasion ( I will allow others to have their own opinions, unlike the many here who insist that no-one have any opinion that is different from theirs) - but DO NOT say that you can oppose enforcing the UNR AND tell Saddam that he will not be held accountable and then ignore the responsibility for his acting in the manner you encouraged him to.

I oppose unneeded wars- but IN THIS CASE the invasion, IMHO, was warranted. I do not know what reasons Blix had for his statement- was he told the UN was that Iraq was not in compliance with the last and final chance.