"the UN did indeed decide that Iraq should disarm but it also decided on how this should be monitored and the US chose to ignore this."

'But where do you draw the line?'

wherever the threat to the US is real. if Hussein's Iraq really was a threat to US security, i would think many more people would have been onboard for a forced disarmament, screw the inspections.

but this conflict has shown us that Iraq was not really much of a threat at all to the US, which is why the administration has been downplaying the WMD threat and up-playing the whole 'liberation' spin.

while many, including me, think the world is a better place with Hussein gone, i'm wondering when we're going to liberate the people of Saudi Arabia. or Cuba. or North Korea.