Originally posted by Jarkis

All this could have been avoided if the war wasn't started at all.
All of this could have been avoided had Saddam allowed the UN inspecters to continue their job. If he didn't have WMD (which is what the UN was there to confirm in the first place) then there is no need to refuse to cooperate. We gave him plenty of time to conform to the UN resolutions and he did not.

That's like saying "my brother wouldn't have died in a car accident if they hadn't invented cars."