Your column is a little off the mark. In fact, they did go through the UN by getting UNSCR 1441 passed. The real lie is that Iraq didn’t comply with UNSCR 1441. The obvious follow up question was: How was Iraq in breach of UNSCR 1441? The main assertion that Iraq was in material breach of UNSCR 1441 was that the Iraqi report on the state of their WMD programs submitted on December 7, 2002 in compliance with UNSCR 1441 was full of omissions and false information. In light of what we now know, this assertion was false. The Iraqi claim that their WMD programs ended in the (...)