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Originally Posted by andyl
I was thinking more that we needed to carry more Arab opinion as well as others in the Western world, rgather than it being about respect for the UN.
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Well I think generally Arabs have about as much respect for the UN as I do.I wouldn't have though it would made a difference there, but throughout Europe and middle to west Asia anyway,
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not least because the logic being given for intervention was not regime change (no threat to us or, say, Israel) but WMD (whooooh, scary).
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That is like point 3 of 22 of how badly it was handled. If it was me, and the WMD intelligence was extremely shakey (reports on that vary), I would have just pushed the humanitarian aspect, even though if I did, the war would have even less support. Exagerating can be construed as lying, and lying always comes back out to haunt you. Nothing can ever be covered up that well in this fay and age.
I am with you on that aspect though, that is wrong to be sent to a war on a lie. I don't expect politicians to be whiter-than-white, and a little exageration here-and-there is need to make things a bit more glossy, but exagerating so far out of context as to portray a lie was wrong. It isn't so bad for me, because in the end, I got the result I wanted, that Saddam is in prison and Uday/Qusay are dead. If I was against the humanitarian aspect (like some are) i'd feel pretty cheated and quite rightly so.