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I seem to recall the inspectors objecting vociferously that Saddam was not coming clean, that he was uncooperative and reluctant to let them in to certain military facilities - they believed he had them and was running an end-around on them.
Spin it all you like - the UN and the world thought he had them. That is just FACT.
After Bush's BS, they sure did.
They were wrong, though.
Hans Blix reported that his team had found nothing and needed another couple of months to fininsh checking everything, but since time was running out before summer would have put a stop to any invasion plans, Bush ordered Blix and Crew out of Iraq and went forward with the invasion.
Do you have a link for the objections of the inspectors?
Hans Blix reported that his team had found nothing and needed another couple of months to fininsh checking everything, but since time was running out before summer would have put a stop to any invasion plans, Bush ordered Blix and Crew out of Iraq and went forward with the invasion.
Do you have a link for the objections of the inspectors?
Exactly right. And here is what Blix had to say about it...the UN Inspectors had made 700 inspections and found nothing. Nor did those who looked for
them after the invasion of Iraq.
The Bush administration and U.N. inspectors had demanded that the declaration, which was flown today from Baghdad to U.N. headquarters in New York, support Iraq's claims that it had destroyed its stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. U.S. and U.N. officials have long been skeptical of Iraq's assertion and insisted on seeing proof that Baghdad eliminated tons of bacteriological and nerve agents it covertly produced and weaponized in the 1980s.
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In a 1999 report to the Security Council, arms inspectors said their most significant unresolved issue with Iraq was its failure to fully account for the biological and chemical weapons it had acknowledged producing.
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"Iraq's past declarations were not accepted as a full account of the scale and the scope of Iraq's [biological weapons] program," the inspectors wrote.
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The chief U.N. weapons inspector, Hans Blix, recently expressed doubt about Iraq's claims that it did not have more thorough evidence. "The production of mustard gas is not like marmalade," he said on a trip to Baghdad last month. "You have to keep some records."
There is a food shortage... People with tinfoil hats in Hoboken have been stocking up..
Come on not working on a Saturday night? Whats up with that?
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