"Then you had the UN weapons inspectors who kept being thrown out of Iraq." One of the reasons Iraq didn't co-operate with weapons inspectors was because they

"Then you had the UN weapons inspectors who kept being thrown out of Iraq." One of the reasons Iraq didn't co-operate with weapons inspectors was because they were infiltrated by US and UK intelligence. As far as I know they were never actually "thrown out". The other big reason is that the weapons inspections was the only bargaining chip they had left. "If the weapons inspectors had been allowed to remain and do their job, there wouldn't have been a second Iraq war." That is not what happened. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/weapons-inspectors-leave-iraq/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/weapons-inspectors-leave-iraq/