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Originally Posted by El Blanco
South Africa didn't take ten years to just work with the inspectors. Hussien has been pulling this for over 10 years. When do you get to say the inspections are futile? And the inspectors keep finding things he said he didn't have.
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In 1998, President Clinton pulled the inspectors out to enact Op. Desert Fox (ie. bomb people). Hussein wouldn't let them back in because the UN inspection team was being asked by the U.S. to do things "other" than inspecting.
Same year, Scott Ritter went before Congress and chastized the government for not taking inspections seriously. He was blown off. If you want to fault the success of inspections, fault all sides involoed.
Also, please explain where inspections have thus far gone wrong. Obviously, Iraq hasn't cooperated the best it could, but keep in mind how well the U.S. or other major powers might respond to such a request. Iraq is currently destroying their illegal missiles under the supervision of inspectors. Now, I'm sure, tather than viewing this as a success for inspections, you immediately dismissed it as a "ploy" of siome sort. I'm not saying you have no argument for war at all, what I'm saying is that you shouldn't hide just how badly you want it.
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you really think I like the idea of someone who never served in combat is Commander-in-Chief?
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You haven't seemed bothered by the idea until it was brought up just now.....
Bombs: It must be because I don't have a "career," or maybe because my Carly Simon CD is skipping.
*spank*
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