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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
You are not hinking in time. You are focusing only on the end results. Those articles state that when the UN decided to send the inspectors back into Iraq, SH said you cannot have access to my palaces. The inspectors said we want access to the palaces becuase they are not just homes. SH said no - there will be no access to the palaces. Then, after we amassed troops on its borders and after, I think, Kofi A. met with the Iraqis, they agreed to allow the inspectors to have access to the palaces. THis is the time frame I referenced. For SH to say he was not going to allow the inspectors into his multi-functional palaces, indicates he was trying to control where the inspectors could and could not go. He was playing "cat and mouse" with them in the sense that he knew they wanted to go there and he thought he could stop them. That was bad faith on his part, esp. after he said Iraq was willing to cooperate. etc.
So, he caved. Then, when they got there, the inspectors had access to the palaces. I have never argues they did not once they got there. All I am saying is if SH had had his way and the US and UN had not been adamant, the inspectors would never have been allowed access to the palaces despite their desire to do so.
That means SH initially tried to block the inspectors from inspecting all areas they wanted. He was made to allow them into the palaces. That was bad faith on his part and just another example of his unwillingness to meet his burden set by the UN.
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We're hitting a snag because we don't see this affair eye to eye. I simply do not see it your way, end of story. You can talk about his bad faith and unwilligness to comply with the UN, but that's simply false, IMO. What's bad faith is having US spies in there inspecting. I hated Saddam, but if you want to call a spade a spade...
I simply do not see it as a game of cat and mouse. I see it as a dictator finding out that another country had sent spies into his country, he kicked them out, then agreed to allow them back in, replete with more power and authority. Sorry.
