re: Saddam was hiding something from the UN Inspectors
"How could the inspections have ever worked with Saddam lying and hiding stuff from the UN."
Yet its simple empirical fact that they DID indeed work, as clearly evidenced by the undeniable observation that there are NO WMD in Iraq.
Or are we to deny simple reality and get fully into the relam of Ufoology, holocaust denial and Yetis?
Perhaps it was simply Rightist-Rhetoric-Of-The day that the pinko-commie UN could never be effective in the face of tyrants. And perhaps you simply swallowed this rhetoric at face value. Just as you swallowed that Iraq had WMD, Al-Qaeda ties and was a threat to the US- again at face value.
Frankly, the stopped watch is 2 up the 'BloggistNeoCon' clique, of which CE here is a great living example.
Davin L.