liberals....

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

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.

No it is not. It is cat and mouse with the sites the inspectors said they needed to go to, regardless of any prior action and even if the prior people were spies, Blix and company certainly were not. In the end, SH had no right to say he would disallow anything; It was his burden and he minced words and played cat and mouse about meeting it. No one seems willing to acknowledge that it was his burden - for the life of me I cannot understand that But, it was.

In any event, my version, which is factually correct no two ways about that, hardly rises to the level of the outright lie you accused me of