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Originally Posted by gunnut
How would you verify that Iraq was not in violation?
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A state can be in violation of a Chapter 7 Security Council resolution and not have it lead to war (See South Africa or Morocco). And for the record Iraq did comply with Security Council directives, (sometimes reluctantly but always eventually complying), from 1992-1998. In 1998 the Security Council couldn't agree if Iraq was in violation, let alone if force should be justified, but the US took it upon themselves to attack Iraq.
Nothing really changed between 1998 and 2003 except Iraq was more complicit, or at least more accommodating, and the US was in a less forgiving mood.