V-Twin,
No prob. Here is what I would have done in Feb. 2002..

If anyone was really paying close attention to the UN negotiations that were going on back when Bush said he had 'finally had enough' .... and decided to no longer listen to any dialogue with UN Security Council members, ... Germany, France and Russia had agreed to demand that Iraq accept fully armed UN forces into Iraq to assist the inspectors in their investigations. To back this up, France and Germany had agreed to setting a military ultimatum for 6 months (Sept. or Oct, which was a much better time to start military actions) to force Iraq to accept these UN military forces. If one combined these demands with the USA's own passion to invade, these would NOT have been idle threats. And it would have resulted in a true multi national power, military police force entering Iraq and securing any threat that Iraq represented to the USA, the Middle East, and the world as a whole..

This UN force would NOT have been perceived as an INVADING and CONQUERING power of the Iraqi homeland. The USA military would have then been free to pursue the true Al Queda threat in Afghanistan and in the rest of the world.. (please remember that Sadam, ( a fanatic of Joseph Stalin,... not Mohammed) had been responsible for killing over 2 million Moslem fundamentalists in the Iran- Iraq war. Al Queda hated him as much as they hate the USA.)

The reason that this plan was not forwarded by the Bush Administration, was because Bush NEVER wanted a combined UN force to invade Iraq. If the invasion, or policing of Iraq was done under the command and authority of the UN Security Council, the USA would NOT have been in position to establish their own permanent US puppet government in Iraq, and it would NOT have been able to permanently secure the Iraq oil reserves for the long time future of USA corporations.