Originally posted by DodgyAgent
1) To organise UN supervised democractic election in Iraq
2) If the Baathists had interfered or failed to hold the elections - this would result in UN Security Council endorsing a legitimate Security Council approved War
Given the above scenario Saddams options would have been to resign as the Sunnis were a minority group in Iraq - to tamper with the elections would have resulted in his removal of power by the UN millitary action.
However the US administration balked at the above concept given that the Shias would gain political dominance in Iraq - and that has been the flaw in their entire policy towards Iraq and explains why Saddam was not removed from power after the first Gulf War and why US and UK troops stood by whilst Iraqi troops massacered Shias in the South during their uprising of 1991.

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