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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Because after the 1st Gulf War, Sadaam was considered dangerous.
Things changed over the following decade. Quite considerably.
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Obviously. But no one knew that: the UN believed he had weapons or the sanctions would have been gone, he acted like he had them, etc. The "Bush lied" rhetoric ignores all the facts. In essence what Bush said was "given what everyone belives we can't ignore it." I agree.
Guys like Ty answer: if only we let the inspectors keep looking they would have proven there were no weapons.
Problem though was that sadaam kept interfering with inspectors and only really let them in when the US put/kept 200K on the Iraq border.
