You don't get it.

1) It would not have been only our troops and the tommies facing this crap - others would have been along.

2) A UN force would be viewed as an occupying power by fewer Iraqis - without the support of the people, guerilla operations can not function.

Along these lines, I want to remind you that if the Israeli expansionists had of not blocked the implementation of either Camp David or Oslo, bin Laden never would have had enough popular support to mount his 9/11 attacks - the general populace would have turned him in.

3) A UN force would have made it possible to get out faster - there would have been an easy and well defined way to get out.

4) A larger UN inspection team would have made it easier to find Saddam's WMD - and they would have been able to operate in a better environment

Now assuming that one of the things you actuallly wanted to do was to track down al Qaeda, and prevent them from getting their hands on WMD, which in my view is what motivated Bush Jr, instead of providing Sharon with cover for his West Bank land grab, which in my view is what motivated the "neoconservatives", then you would have waited -

The sooner that lot is exposed, in other words as soon as the Office of Special Plans scandal blows, the sooner they will be removed as far from power as possible, and the better our lives will be -

As is is, who else now has sarin?

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