Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>I think it was because SH failed to cooperate<<<


From the second paragraph of the story you posted:


"Inspections in Iraq resumed on 27 November 2002. In matters relating to process, notably prompt access to sites, we have faced relatively few difficulties and certainly much less than those that were faced by UNSCOM in the period 1991 to 1998. This may well be due to the strong outside pressure.

This is not to say that the operation of inspections is free from frictions, but at this juncture we are able to perform professional no-notice inspections all over Iraq and to increase aerial surveillance."


You keep citing lack of cooperation as the reason for the invasion and yet every account available by the inspection team describes near perfect compliance. The only one complaining is George Bush who as usual has nothing of substance to offer so he whines about lack of acceptable accounting and verbal assurances by SH.

In other words, Bush essentially argues that Saddam Hussein's book keeping and word of honor would have carried more weight than actual findings and assessments by UN inspectors. And you seem to agree with him.....??