Reply #5: The U.N. was proven to be correct, and the neocons wrong.

[Martin Eden]

The one thing the Bush administration can be given credit for is getting the UN inspectors back into Iraq. But once they were in, their efforts were derided and their findings dismissed.

Now that the entire country has been scoured for WMD, it is obviously apparent that the UN inspections and sanctions had been very successful at eliminating Iraq's WMD and keeping a lid on Saddam's ambitions.

The neocons act as if the UN is determined to prevent the US from defending itself, but Iraq had nothing to do with terrorist attacks against the US, and the invasion diverted vital resources from the campaign against al Qaeda and their Taliban supporters in Afghanistan.

If anything, our allies France and Germany tried to prevent us from making a huge mistake, but the neocons would have none of it. They were determined to have their war, and have it they did.

If the US had complied with the international law of the UN, the terrorist threat would likely be much less than it is now, and if we had invested a fraction in Afghanistan what we've invested in Iraq, that country would be much further along in its development as a safe, secure, and stable model of democracy.

Instead, we are mired in two extremely problematical nation building operations, and making a mess of both of them.