Is Iraq going to fall?

[PaulS]

Jim - if I remember correctly Sadam was starting to give the inspectors a lot more cooperation near the end once it was obvious we were heading down the road to invasion. I don't think a little more time would have hurt anything.

I don't know if it was a honest mistake or deception but the admin. did have blinders on.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Jim - if I remember correctly Sadam was starting to give the inspectors a lot more cooperation near the end once it was obvious we were heading down the road to invasion. I don't think a little more time would have hurt anything.

I don't know if it was a honest mistake or deception but the admin. did have blinders on.

"if I remember correctly Sadam was starting to give the inspectors a lot more cooperation near the end "

Maybe. But he was still defiant, right up to the end. He was not giving the inspectors everything they asked for. And that was what he was required to do, under his surrender terms from the first Gulf War.

"admin. did have blinders on"

I think the administration (and a LOT of Democrats in the Senate) concluded he had WMDs. But Bush was not hell-bent on invasion, he gave Saddam too many chances to avoid it.

It wasn't deception, someone would have blown the whistle.

[spence]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Jim - if I remember correctly Sadam was starting to give the inspectors a lot more cooperation near the end once it was obvious we were heading down the road to invasion. I don't think a little more time would have hurt anything.

Blix certainly did say that they were getting enough access to do their job...that's why he was demonized by the Right, shoot the messenger.

-spence

[justplugit]

No need to worry. Obama is forming a commission to see what action can be taken. Great forward planning knowing this scenario could or would happen.
Another typical leading from behind move. A day late and a dollar short.