I wasn't quibbling whether or not 1441 said they were in breach or not. Of course it says that, I was offering evidence in your dspute with CarolC about whether they have been in breach for the whole time since 1991. You stated that 1441 showed that it was, I pointed out that it didn't. I wasn't arguing over whether they have actually been in breach since 1991, just about whther 1441 proved it as you asserted.

I'm more interested in the fact that none of the resolutions allow for an automatic route to war, with the decision taken by a member of the security council rather than the council as a whole. The last resolution of authorise "all necessary means " was the one which authorised action regarding Kuwait. And those means were limited to force necessary to get Iraq ro withdraw from Kuwait. Subsequent resolutions have not authorised force.