GUEST Forum Lurker I enjoyed your answers to my post. I'd simply add that Saddam's budget is in no way pathetic. He's in control of a money making machine, and the UN sanctions were and are pathetic, porous even.

As for the U.S. being in violation of International Law, I share your misgivings, but international law is a developing frontier. I think that Russia and France, Germany and ??BELGIUM?? are setting international law back as the European Nations did with their lack of support for the League of Nations (Doing nothing while armed imperialist Italy ran rampant over unarmed Ethiopia).

After ten years of decreasingly effective sanctions and one month of conditional inspections (Remember when IRAQ said they were open to UNCONDITIONAL inspections at the end of '02) I don't see what the world has to gain.