(As a Political Science major this is a perfect topic for me, as we’ve been discussing it all semester.) Nations and groups of nations, including the United Nations and NATO, agreed that Iraq must not be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction. However, the U.S. and Britain disagreed with the United Nations about what steps to take to ensure that Iraq had no such weapons.
President Bush declared in the summer of 2002 that the U.S. was going to disarm Iraq through warfare. Most nations of the world, the United Nations, most of the American people, and the U.S. Congress disagreed with President Bush. They did not feel that an invasion of Iraq should have been the first step in solving the problem. Most thought it should be the last step. They insisted that U.N. inspections, which had succe
- It will help control Al Qaeda, and deter other terrorist
- It was not up to the U.N. inspectors to find the weapons, it was up to Iraq to lead inspectors to them, Iraq did not intend to disarm.