#1... Correct

#2... Correct

But then the story goes off the tracks... What occured that you don't want to talk about has nothin' at all to do with UN resolution and that is Bush started with his sabre rattling about this and that... Saddam is a bad man... Musroom clouds... Aluminum tubes. Blah, blah, blah... Thie is the part of thet story that you ignore and ignore... No one was talkin' about UN resolution back in then, T...

The war was rolled out to be sold in August of '02 with no mention of UN resolutions or even going to the UN... That fact changes everything... If Bush and Blari had sold the war correctly then...
maybe more people would have said, "Geeze, maybe we do need to do this..."

But the war was sold with a bunch of emotionally charged lies... That's B&B's bad...

That being a given then #3, #4 and #5 were steps that didn't have to happen as the premise for these cations was flawed...

Then we get around to points #6 thru #9 and here we have some very major differences...

You wanted and war and were going to find any rationilzation to have one... I didn't want a war and so I did the same on my side...

You think when Blix said that the "most important" thing was that Iraq was "cooperating" in letting the inspectors inspect where ever they wanted that that statement was not the "most imortant" or even "important"...

Well, if yer looking to go to war then, yeah, you would skim past that statement like it was a radiation pit... Problem is that inspite of the other problems that the inspectors ahd had in the ***past*** they were now able to do their jobs of proving or disproving the existence ot WMDs...

That's what Blix said... That's why it was premature to order up and invasion... That is how histporians will judge this... I really don't care about what Iraq had done prior to January, 2003 in terms of cooperating... That is completely irrelevent... We weren't in the business or revenge... We were supposed to be in the business of keeping the world safer... We failed on both counts...

B~