[hchutch]

Perfectly innocent explanations for all of them might exist.

Now, the chance of those innocent explanations existing is slightly worse than my chances of going out with Jennifer Love Hewitt next weekend, but there is a chance.

[randita]

I left few out.

-Admission by Iraqi scientists that they were instructed to lie to UN weapons inspectors.

-Refusal of SH to account for banned arms materiel we knew he had obtained after the Gulf War and refusal of SH to prove that materiel that was supposed to be destroyed was destroyed.

-Willingness of SH to be deposed (and die) rather than be forthcoming to the UN. This is the most baffling of all. If he had nothing to hide, why would he sacrifice everything? Had he been forthcoming, he'd still be tyrannizing his subjects at this hour. Why did he sacrifice everything just to be defiant? He might have been maniacal, but he was no fool or he wouldn't have remained in power for 3 decades.