>
> > > Face it, we were lied to.
> >
> > I disagree. I think we assumed he worst case. Whn
> > dealing with WMD, that's not unreasonable.
>
> But they were complying with the Inspections !!
>
> OK, they had to be forced to accept them :
> the _threat_ posed by the US was justified, 100%,
> but not the war itself, not from the reasons put forward
> by Bush and his pet poodle.
>
This was the problem with the French position. It was fine to decide not to support the call for War, but to come out and say "We will not support a call for War under any circumstances whatever" meant that th epro-war lobby could then just write them off, since they knew they couldn't get tehm "on-side"
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