The Articles of the UN make it very clear that the use of force has to be spelled out explicitly on a case by case basis, which 1441 did not, and not extrapolated from other resolutions.
As has been noted elsewhere, you can have sarin sufficient to kill half a million people, but it's useless unless you can aerosolerize it without destroying it, which is the really tricky part - and that, Saddam didn't have.
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Date: 2004-07-29 05:21 pm (UTC)As has been noted elsewhere, you can have sarin sufficient to kill half a million people, but it's useless unless you can aerosolerize it without destroying it, which is the really tricky part - and that, Saddam didn't have.