You can never admit doubt when your stated goal is protection of the innocent and global justice. The Bushies will not relent on their prewar claims despite abundant contradictory evidence b/c they cannot. They would have to admit that pre-emption/Bush Doctrine is a pipe dream.
We cannot subdue imminent security threats b/c our ability to detect them sux. Furthermore, this episode demonstrates pre-emption is guided by ideology (Iraq) of threat not reality (North Korea).
The Bush Doctrine/PNAC wet dream will not come to fruition b/c it requires a world as uninformed and uncritical as the American public. It requires regimes to yield to threat b/c there's no way we could ever hope to subdue all nations by economic/military coercion that would oppose US hegemony.
I watched Kay claim UN inspectors would not be useful in Iraq b/c Iraq is too dangerous and the UN would not partake in the type of "interrogation" being used by US teams. Curiously, the US claims the task of investigating WMD sites is time/fund consuming b/c it's a relatively small amount distributed across a huge country (and huge sites) but instead of combining Kay's team with the initial search efforts . . . the Bushies sent the first team home and replaced them with Kay's team. The UN was asking to go to Iraq to secure sites they had already searched/identified. The US denied them access (for various reasons). Now the US excuse is that Iraq is too dangerous.
Shouldn't the UN make that decision? Considering the importance of finding/securing WMD in Iraq why couldn't the US or better yet the UN, secure a dedicated force group to create a sphere of security around inspectors?
The search for WMD is being carried out in the same manner as the war. The US has an abundance of theories, expenses, and excuses but very little evidence.