What you don't seem to be able to accept is that the UN did not believe the technical violations merited attack on Iraq.
This is what the head of the inspection team stated that had made 700 inspections of Iraq prior to our attack there:
"On February 11 -- less than five weeks before the invasion -- I told U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice I wasn't terribly impressed by the intelligence we had received from the U.S., and that
there had been no weapons of mass destruction at any of the sites we had been recommended by American forces. Her response was that it was Iraq, and not the intelligence, that was on trial.
ARWA DAMON: Iraq suffocates in cloak of sorrow
And during a telephone chat with Tony Blair on February 20, I told the British prime minister that it would be paradoxical and absurd if a quarter of a million troops were to invade Iraq and find very little in the way of weapons. He responded by telling me intelligence was clear that Saddam had reconstituted his weapons of mass destruction program.
At any rate, whatever view one took of the evidence of weapons,
no one could believe in 2003 that prostrate Iraq was a threat to any other state."
Why invading Iraq was a terrible mistake - CNN.com
