First of all, it was never the UN's responsibility to "hunt" for the weapons. The UN was there to "confirm" disarmament, with a willing government. Iraq was not a willing government.
When the UN went to South Africa for disarmament inspections, South Africa proved to them through documentation and cooperation that they had no more weapons of mass destruction. South Africa wasn't playing a cat and mouse game like Iraq.
Let me repeat this again(for your thick skull) It is not the UN's charter to disarm Iraq, it was up to Iraq to prove this to the UN, and they failed. Hans Blix is loved by France(sold nuclear reactor and illegal munitions), Germany(built Saddam's bunkers) and Russia(sold jamming equiptment, provided training), because they knew he was going to draw things out.
17 blown resolutions is enough. Now the big leader with all his temples and effigies of himself is paying for it.
Why didn't we do this earlier? I totally agree with you, we should have done it long ago, I guess after this comment you have no problem doing this, since your argument is "we should have done this before, why now?".
Let's not forget one thing here Babar, the Iraqis aren't like us, the reason they(Arab countries) have brutal dictators, is because that's what a lot of them respect. They don't respect peace marchers like you, they really don't. They respect power and force, and that's what they are getting now. We will drag them into the 21st century. Remember, it was your hero Bill Clinton that taught us, we are a "world community" now and can't just ignore problems in the world. If we ignore them, who else has the power do do the right thing?
-Spanker has Spanketh.