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[waylon]

Assuming we believed the worlds intelligence agencies' claim that Iraq did possess WMD's, what if we had continued with the UN inspections and had not gone to war in Iraq?

Assuming no weapons will be found, what would we have thought after 6 months or a year of un inspections? In other words, would we have been comfortable relying on un inspections that found no weapons at all? Or would we have continued to feel that the un inspections were inept and unreliable? His point is that the administration would have been critized for relying on the UN to protect us and, without searching for the weapons ourselves, we would never be absolutely certain about their existence. And since Iraq had already violated UN resolutions, financed terrorists, and used WMD's in the past, would we feel the Iraq issue had been resolved or not?