Is the UN partly responsible for Iraq?

[Agammamon]

Missed signals on WMD? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17489-2004Feb5.html)


Did the UN have "proof" that Iraq had no WMD but bow to US pressure to keep looking?

[Crossbow]

Note to the Bush Admin:

When you cannot stand to blame yourself for the problems you caused in Iraq,

Blame the UN!

:p

[zenith-nadir]

Saddam used WMD in the Iran-Iraq war.

Saddam used WMD against the Kurds.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam was known as Chemical Ali for using chemical weapons as his weapon of choice.

In 1995, Hussein Kamal, Saddam's son-in-law, and the chief organizer of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, defected to Jordan. He revealed that Iraq was continuing to conceal weapons and missiles and the capacity to build many more.

The U.N. passed several resolutions against Saddam's WMD.



...and just for the Bush-haters here....

Clinton even spoke about Saddam's WMD:

President Clinton's address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff: (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/)

Yet no WMD has been found.

So either there was no WMD...which seems to contradict well-documented history and events.....or Saddam's WMD has yet to been found.

I am still waiting with an open mind....only time will tell.

[Agammamon]

Or perhaps, just perhaps, there was WMD in '90, we smashed his program and destroyed the stockpiles in Kuwait and he was never able to get the ball rolling again and the administration (both W's and Slick Willie's) somehow completely missed the fact that the UN didn;t find any and the Iraqi's said they didn't have any.

Plus if, as asserted by Rumsfeld, we knew exactly where this stuff was (tha's how we kew he had them remember) why is it so difficult to find now?
Are you really suggesting that in the months prior to the war Saddam removed the thousands of tons of WMD, that was sitting on his frontline ready to be launched at Americans at the first sign of invasion, while his country was under intense observation by us and most of the Western World?
I know that satellites aren't foolproof but moving large amounts of stuff in a short timeframe under heavy observation (especialy if you don't know when the satellites will be over the horizon or not) is an impressive accomplishment.