What was wrong with WMDs as a reason to invade Iraq?
Without a UN resolution, everything. It weakens the UN and increases the chance that other powerful states will act unilaterally against a perceived threat. China against Taiwan, Israel against the rest of the Middle East, both spring immediately to mind. Not only that, it's morally wrong: the US and the UK have WMDs, too. "I can have them, but you can't, because I'm bigger than you."
Intel said that he had them
Only a few isolated and rather suspect sources, which were seized upon, had the intelligence community caveats and cautions hacked from them, and were presented by politicians as solid fact.
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Date: 2004-07-27 12:42 am (UTC)Without a UN resolution, everything. It weakens the UN and increases the chance that other powerful states will act unilaterally against a perceived threat. China against Taiwan, Israel against the rest of the Middle East, both spring immediately to mind. Not only that, it's morally wrong: the US and the UK have WMDs, too. "I can have them, but you can't, because I'm bigger than you."
Intel said that he had them
Only a few isolated and rather suspect sources, which were seized upon, had the intelligence community caveats and cautions hacked from them, and were presented by politicians as solid fact.