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Originally Posted by dculkin
The key word in that sentence is "trying". There were methods available to forcibly complete the inspections without starting a war.
That is not true. Never was, never will be, no matter how many times it is repeated.
And I suppose the risk of a botched war was a better gamble.
It's not hindsight when people in a position to know said at the time that Saddam was not a threat.
the only one that is supported by the evidence known to the public is that Bush saw that the inspections were starting to work. If he waited, the inspections would have made public what Bush already knew - that Saddam was not a threat.
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Such as? Business as usual like the last 10 years? Write another resolution?
How so? Can you guarantee that it will not happen? I can't.
I tend to think it was a gamble. Granted it didn't go as well as we hoped but I didn't think it was that dicey at the time.
What makes those people's point so valid? There were others who disagreed with them. Yes, once it unfolds, we know which side was right. At that time, who could say for sure.
Starting to work as in what? Like the last 10 years? They have been starting to work and then something comes up. Start again and something comes up. They have been "starting to work" for 10 years when it should have started to work at the end of the gulf war. There were dozens of resolutions that indicated it was "starting to work" too.