What noone says about the sanctions

Reading the findings and the different reactions of the Iraq survey group is highly amusing. Now that they can't find any WMDs, suddenly the real reason was that he was trying to break the sanctions. Wow, what a finding!!!!!!!!!!
What exactly were we expecting him to do? Sanctions (whether imposed from the outside or from within - as for instance during the prohibition) will always be fought against. If Blair and Straw seriousely expected Saddam to voluntarily accept sanctions - they are so far away from reality, that they should consider to resign. And just to make that clear, untill last week I still argued against this. They made a mistake, ok a bad one, but still they're better than any credible alternative. But if they insist, that they had a casus belli, because Iraq tried to lift, or evade sanctions, sorry that is beyond any reason. And politicians without reason are highly dangerous.

What is actually far more interesting that, given te fact that there were no WMDs, the sanctions were actually illegal. They were originately designed to ensure the destruction of WMDs. Once this task was done, to uphold them was to deprive the Iraqi population from wealth on no reason except, well actually except for nothing appart from us not liking Saddam (and the ordinary Iraqis had to pay for it). We are responsible for the lost of millions of children(according to UN estimation), because, well we didn't believe what the Iraqi government was telling us. And for that matter what Butler had wanted to tell us in 1995, but was stopped by western politicians, who suddenly realised that they wanted to contain Saddam. But this was something never originately intended by the sanctions.
Sorry but this is not really any better than Saddam himself was (and he already was pretty "evil")
As to the other great finding, that the French and Russians were "bribed". At least they didn't start an aggresive war (war for purpose as regime change is classified as aggresion). And the half a million pound that the french recived directly were paid in 1988 at a time when Britain and America were still happily delivering WMDs to Saddam themselves. But to actually remember one's own mistakes is evidently to much for the west!