As can I, and last I checked, I'm still a few up on you. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
The reality is that the Bush Administration did accept the findings of Hans Blix in his report to the UN Security Council. Many other Americans, did not.
Hans Blix was later found not to be the most credible person to fill the role of Chief UN Weapons Inspector for Iraq.
http://www.iraqwatch.org/wmd/hansirrelevant.htm
This holds even more true for a weapons site recently found in Iraq near Al-Qaqaa.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20041029/ts_usatoday/usnixestheoryonmissingweapons
Hrmm, Justified.
A tyranical dictator with a long history of abusing, torturing, and executing, Iraqi Citizens, is no longer in power.
No more mass executions for Iraqi People.
No more torture chambers.
No more Chemical Abuse of Iraqi People.
No more suppression of Iraqi People.
Iraqi Citizens are now free. They will be voting, yes, you heard that right, voting for their new leaders in January of next year.
Have Iraqi Citizens ever had freedom? Elected their own leaders without fear?
Finally, How many UN Resolutions are really necessary before we act?
The state department lists 17 United Nations Security Council Resolutions that Saddam Hussein was in violation of.
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/01fs/14906.htm
The White House lists 16 United Nations Security Council Resolutions that Saddam Hussein was in violation of.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect2.html
These resolutions were set in place to ensure that Saddam Hussein would not pose a threat to the world.
As he was found in violation of all of the above resolutions, he was a threat.
Considering he had well over 10 years to comply with these resolutions, he had more than ample time to do so, or manipulate things futher.
If this one doesn't cook your cookie, then it's very obvious that you also pick and choose despite actual fact.
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/13456.htm
In your world, Saddam Hussein would still be in power, Millions of Iraqi Citizens would still be killed and tortured by their own ruthless dictator. There would be no freedom for the people of Iraq, and they certainly would not be able to elect their own leaders without fear. Iraq would continue to persue and obtain Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Weapons, and in the hands of it's Dictator, Saddam Hussein; a delusional person bent on conquering other countries to expand his control (as proven in the Gulf War), and would eventually turn them on the United States, Great Brittain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and any other nation, as they see fit.