# Iraq and UN resolution 1441

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 25, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958 "2004-01-25T05:11:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pepsi\_Classic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pepsi\_Classic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pepsi_Classic)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958/1 "2004-01-25T05:11:36Z")

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Was Iraq in violation of UN resolution 1441?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958/2 "2004-01-25T07:24:30Z")

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This sounds like a poll. If you want to debate something, you need to have a position. But I’m really wondering why do you needed to start ANOTHER Iraq thread when you started one yesterday.

[Here’s the text of the Resolution.](http://www.un.int/usa/sres-iraq.htm)

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**Author:** ![Avenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Avenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avenger)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958/3 "2004-01-25T12:12:38Z")

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> [@Pepsi Classic](#):
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> Was Iraq in violation of UN resolution 1441?

At which point in time?

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**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958/4 "2004-01-25T14:12:18Z")

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There was not much to be “in violation of.” The main thing 1441 did was say they were in violation of earlier resolutions.

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958/5 "2004-01-26T20:07:54Z")

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Yes, I think Iraq was in violation of 1441.

Along with prior resolutions, it required Iraq to document what happened to all its WMD. It never did. Now, I seriously wonder if it would ever be possible for any country to document what happened to all its WMD. (Note, for example, that there’s a neighborhood in North West Washington, DC where WWI-era chemical weapons were buried, and their contents leaking into the soil – I seriously doubt that the Army documented the burying of CW in that neighborhood!)

Nonetheless, I think Saddam took it a step further by trying to screw with the UN weapons inspectors in a variety of ways.

Not that any of this made it okay for the US to go off on its own and start a war, of course.

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-un-resolution-1441/225958/6 "2004-01-28T09:15:43Z")

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I dunno. But does anyone else think it’s bizarre that at this point we’re still having to ask?