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Originally posted by BP:

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I don't believe they had a chance to enforce their resolutions and I mean the one that got the inspectors in Iraq before we told them to leave and took over. So we can't say they didn't do their job, cause we cut them off.


Again. All I'm saying is that the adminstration could've done a much better job first off by letting the inspectors finish their job, and then by preparing for post war Iraq better than it was.

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Ok, how can you say we "cut them off" after 12 years of being d!cked around by Hussein with his shell game? How long would YOU give them to fumble around in the desert with their collective thumbs up their @$$es? The UN resolution was created for Iraq to account for amounts of chem/bio/WMD they were KNOWN to have had, yet, they could not account for them. The UN goes in, "inspecting" areas... but NOT military installations, because, that's against "the rules." Did you just black out the entire history of the inspections, or did you never really follow them in the first place? Every time the inspectors would reach what was suspected to be a location for said weapons, Hussein threw up a roadblock, but only for a few days or weeks at a time. That's not suspicious at ALL, right?


There was no idea how post-war Iraq would be. If worse came to worse, the entire country could have been flattened. Fortunately, that's not the case. But, we had no idea what it was going to take to rebuild, because we would NOT know the extent of the damage- either cause by us or in place before hand. You can't just pull some random, arbitrary number out of your head, and say "we're only going to use this much money to rebuild a country." We had ideas of what we were going to do, not how much it would cost, or how long it would actually take. Stop kidding yourself into thinking that it could have been carried out otherwise.

Originally posted by Dionysus:

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I thought I'd post this article and see what people think. Not meaning to start an arguement or anything, but this article just seemed insightful.

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Originally posted by PackRat:

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I'm sure your extensive experience in nation rebuilding drew you to tthat conclusion.

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time will tell

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And Bush still suckz salty monkey scrotums as a president.

jk. not really. but whoever was in office during this time would be taking the same amount of criticism or more. except slick willy, he'd probably be impeached even if he did the exact same things as Bush.

Originally posted by BP:

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I keep saying that the past 2 years are the only ones where anyone started paying attention and progress was being made in disarming and inspecting Iraq. You can't ignore the F-A-C-T that the inspectors didn't get a chance to complete the job we asked them to do.

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