So what if "regime change" was official or even unofficil policy, T... If it meant going to war than why didn't Clinton do it??? Huh???

As fir the timeline??? There really isn't going to be any evidence on either side of the debate because the relationship that Powell had with Bush and those discussion's have never been made public... However, there were alot of "un-named" sources during the Bush/Blair mad-dash-to-Iraq days that we sayin' that Powell was the lone-wolf within the admistration going back way before a UN resolution was even discussed...

As for why the UK put forth the resoultion all comes down to the selling of the war....Remember August of 2002, T... B&B had allready sent out alot of sabre rattliong trial baloons and the the consensus was that they would hold off the campaign until Sepetemebr and folks were back from vacation and the kids were in school... That was exactly the way it was put... One member of the Bush administartion even said that August was not good timing to sell a war... Do you rememebr that or have you conviently put that in you trash bin because it doesn't jive with yer mythology???

Now, make up your mind, T... One minute you are saying that the Iraq war was because of the French, then Blair... Which one??? And why not Bush??? Was the UK going to go it alone??? When did Blair first say he wanted to take out Saddam??? before January 20, 2001??? That's when Treasury Secretary O'Niel said that Bush was consumed with taking out Saddam...

And if "regime change" was somekind of offical policy why hadn't it been done???

And while we are at it, if Saddam was such a problem then why wasn;t he assasinated rather than killing upwards of a 1,000,000 ***other people***???

Huh???

And, ahhhhhh, me thinks that it's well past time for you to pee in the cup 'cause whatever drugs you are on are seriously effecting your ability to grasp reality or even remember the way that things were... If you need a refresher you can go back and reread the threads... Lotta stuff in there that you have conviently forgotten...

Now, pee in the cup...

B~