The scenario you have described does not sound like the United States was in immediate danger. It sounds like there was room for negotiations. If there was immediate danger, then shame on the President for not acting as if there was immediate danger. All of the negotiations, and talking at the UN, and not doing anything after 9/11 provide enough evidence for me to believe there was NOT an immediate danger.
The scenarios do not match up. I would expect that if there were and immediate danger, then the time to act was immediately. Months of negotiations, and claiming we are in an immediate danger during the negotiations, lead me to believe that this is a negotiations ploy, and not reality.
Of course, I support the disarmament. I prefer the straight facts that 12 years is long enough, that sanctions were killing more people than a war would, that for future security we needed to act. I do not believe that we were in IMMEDIATE danger.
Peace
The scenarios do not match up. I would expect that if there were and immediate danger, then the time to act was immediately. Months of negotiations, and claiming we are in an immediate danger during the negotiations, lead me to believe that this is a negotiations ploy, and not reality.
Of course, I support the disarmament. I prefer the straight facts that 12 years is long enough, that sanctions were killing more people than a war would, that for future security we needed to act. I do not believe that we were in IMMEDIATE danger.
Peace