In article 1, Nate Perkins wrote:
"Fletis Humplebacker" ! wrote in :
Maybe someone over there can explain in terms you
can understand that the UN had mandated that
Saddam was to destroy his WMDs under UN
supervision. Ya see, no one trusted him at that point.

Subsequent investigations have all concluded that he did exactly that,
shortly after the first Gulf War.

Ummm, no, they didn't, and, no, he didn't. What part of "under UN supervision"
do you not understand? Saddam may have destroyed those weapons, but the UN
mandated that they be destroyed under UN supervision so that it could be
*verified* that they were destroyed. That did *not* happen.

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