Reply #64: Of course they didn't know everything he had

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But that's precisely the point. Everyone in the Clinton administration believed that
Iraq still had some kind of and some amount of chembio weapons and the inspections did not destroy all of them. Everyone believed that Saddam was hiding something. Nevertheless what they believed Iraq still had posed no threat to the US or to countries in the region that was not containable. Just because Iraq was believed to have chembio weapons was not a good reason to invade it or threatened it with an invasion.
By the same token you could have threatened Iran, Syria and Lybia as well as they too were believed to have chembio weapons.

So you had inspections in the 90s with Saddam not fully cooperating.
Noone - except the neocons - wanted to invade Iraq.

You would have had inspections in 2002 with Saddam not fully cooperating.
Suddenly a lot of people who want to invade Iraq.

And you think that was just logical.

Powell and Rice said what they said in 2001 because the inspections however flawed worked and made Saddam less not more of a threat. Again, what changed in 2002 compared to 2001 when Powell and Rice made those statements?

So far you could only say that it was after 9/11 but 9/11 didn't make Iraq more dangerous than it was before 9/11.

Whether Saddam was a thug or an idiot or what he did in 1998 was irrelevant.
Hillary didn't vote for that resolution because Saddam was an idiot or a thug or that he played games with the inspections during the 90s. If she had been concerned about the inspections she would have tried to change the language of that resolution to force Bush to wait until the inspectors finish their job, but she didn't. She voted for it as it was and it was the White House's own draft and they knew very well what words would give the maximum power to Bush. You say that Hillary believed what Bush said that the resolution was meant to strengten his hand at the UN so that the inspections could go on without roadblocks but you had to be an idiot to believe that as it was enough to take a look at the language of the res. and that whole argument collapsed.