Originally posted by RBatson
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That is the first I heard this, I must have missed a big portion of something somewhere.
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I guess you did, Rick.
This was said pre-war when the both France in the U.N. and the Democrats in the U.S. were trying to claim that
"We need to let the U.N. inspectors do their work". Problem was, Saddam Hussein had hidden or shipped some of his WMD outside the country (Syria, probably) or offshore, in ships. Meanwhile, the U.N. inspectors played hide-and-seek, trying to figure out where the chemical weapons were. In reality, the Iraq government was supposed to turn them over, not make us look for them, but they bald-faced lied and said
"we have no chemical weapons" so the inspectors had to look for the weapons, which was really just a stalling game. Democrats favored this approach which, intentional or not, insured nothing would be found and Saddam would remain in power. Fortunately, President Bush and the U.S. military decided to put an end to this and the rest is now history.