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The New DU. Reply #34: My view is that inspections needed to be carried out
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Sun Oct-08-06 04:29 PM
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| 34. My view is that inspections needed to be carried out |
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unconditionally to confirm that his weapons programs were shutdown and remained so. I think Democrats were in large agreement with that position and did the best they could to get an acceptable resolution to force Hussein to cooperate. In hindsight Bush's and Cheney's foolishness was underestimated.
What changed in 2002? I don't know how about in 2001? The country and its politicians were predisposed to aggressive enforcement of the UN resolutions as a result of 9/11.
I don't agree that saying who gets to determine the diplomacy route is useless totally invalidates the requirement. Bush calculated that he would have the publics support after his UN inspection charade, he calculated well.
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