The war would have started earlier is the only other thing that would have happened.

I don't know if you've noticed, but the war has started. People are already dieing, whether it pleases you or not. (I sometimes ask myself if all you true blue super patriots actually care about American lives or if you just like to see images of glorious high tech soldiers and weaponry being used in combat similar to what you play on your computers)

This vengeful gloating against those who did not want this war might give you a sense of satisfaction, (I suspect that some of you would like Hans Blix shot as a traitor or something) but it won't change what happened. He went to far more than just 7 sites, and that claim by an "unnamed" American official is not what was shown on TV in the months preceding the war.

The recent quote in the media that American soldiers found a chemical weapons factory in Najaf, a site that had been searched often by the UN inspectors, that has since been rebutted as the Americans couldn't actually find any evidence of chemical weapons there, seems to underline the assertion that, if there are factories producing chemical weapons, they are not that easy to find. I would wager that American and British generals are under political pressure to "find" evidence of weapons of mass destruction and to portray the Iraqi population as "welcoming" the invaders. The news clip on TV last night of an Iraqi man in Um Qasr and his family telling the British and the Americans to "go home" in English, does undermine such assertions. There were no Iraqis pointing guns at his head. The possibility that the Iraqis are not so happy about having a war destroying their homes and their families might not fit in with the love of killing shown by many here, but it seems like a normal reaction to war to me.

It seems that many in your country want the following things:
a.The US should ignore the UN
b.The US should punish (attack?) any country that does not agree with the US, such as Canada, France and Germany.
c.The US should start a huge series of wars in the middle east to "bring democracy to that region"
d.That people who do not want war should be shot, or "stoned in the streets" as our local MacNN neonazi has claimed.

Fine, if that is what you so desperately want, do it. get your politicians to start economic sanctions against France, Canada and Germany (and the Pope as he doesn't want war either). Attack Syria, Iran and North Korea. Leave the UN. Start public executions of anyone who doesn't follow the government line.

And then you can welcome Saddam Hussein as a consultant on political affairs into your government, because that is what his country is like.