Well, what you say is all fine slacker, but it still doesn't really make me see why there was any urgency in invading Iraq. Powell's quote in that article doesn't help:
Quote:
But Powell noted that Iraq used chemical weapons in the Iraq-Iran war and on the Kurds in the 1980s and had the chance to come clean about its programs to the international community through the '90s.
"It's a fact," he said.
He said there was a "solid case" from U.N. inspectors and other officials that the Saddam Hussein regime "was a danger we had to worry about."
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But which UN inspectors? Certainly not the chief ones - Blix was rabidly anti-invasion.
Pretty much all the evidence uncovered thus far suggests that, as a worst case scenario, that there was
potentially a danger. Not an
imminent threat.