He's convinced that we believe "military might is the only answer to terrorism" even though no one has ever said that.

He believes in giving the inspectors more time despite the facts:

1. In area, Iraq is a little bigger than California. It'd take a very long time for inspectors to search everywhere.

Iraq: 168,928 square miles (437,522 square kilometers).

California: 163,707 square miles.

2. Iraq isn't cooperating in the search.

People like him said the same thing before the 1991 Gulf War - give sanctions a chance! After the war, inspectors found that Saddam was less than a year from having a nuclear weapon. Had we listened to them then, the entire situation would've been very different. Of course, holding the failure of their past predictions against them is somehow considered cruel.

Be gentle with him. He's from Belgium. The last time Belgian troops were depended upon for anything, this happened.

The officer in charge of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire of Canada warned in early 1994 of plans to carry out a systematic killing. But U.N. officials consistently refused his calls for reinforcements and allow the peacekeepers to intervene to stop the killings, the report said.



Ten Belgian peacekeepers were killed on the first day of the genocide, prompting Belgium to pull its troops out and support the U.S. position against increasing the peacekeepers' mandate.

France, which was a close ally of the Hutu government in Rwanda, has been accused of sending military support to Rwanda both before and during the genocide. A French parliamentary inquiry last year deflected blame on U.N. and U.S. policy.

"The Americans were interested in saving money, the Belgians were interested in saving face, and the French were interested in saving their ally, the genocidal government," said Alison Des Forges, a scholar on Rwanda and author of the report.