Originally Posted by f1_fan

Me too It is one of our darkest times frankly!

Originally Posted by hodgy0_2

It was a farce, if you listen to Hans Blix the head on the UN inspectors

He kept asking the US government where the weapons were located, where exactly were the WMD sites located

The US kept saying they new 100%, but every time they gave Hans Blix details it turned out to be some rusty old buses in the middle of the dessert - he went to over 500 sites, where the US had told him "yep deffo we know they are there"

And Saddam knew that the US were using the inspections as a pretext for spying/espionage on Iraq - which they were

I think part of the problem was Saddam actually pretended he might have them - to keep the west on there toes

But I seem to remember right at the last stages - in the weeks / months before the invasion - the penny dropped for Saddam and he realised that the UK/US were going to invade - he then made concession after concession (but he could obviously not give up the WMD that he did not actually have)

And the rest is history, by then the "coalition" were going to attack WMD or not

Originally Posted by Martin2005

He didn't help himself by refusing to allow his WMD 'scientist' to be interviewed. That didn't exactly demonstrate that he had nothing to hide.