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To: TigerPaw who wrote (23766)	7/29/2003 12:44:32 AM
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Hence, our focus since the resumption of our inspections in Iraq, two and a half months ago, has been verifying whether Iraq revived its nuclear programme in the intervening years. We have to date found no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear related activities in Iraq. What a crock! The IAEA was nearly useless in detecting or dismantling Iraq's nuclear program. Hanging your hat on the IAEA is like relying on the Baghdad Bob to be truthful. After passage of Resolution 1441, Iraq was marginally cooperative on what inspectors called “process”—allowing inspectors access to suspected weapons sites. Iraq failed to provide complete & accurate lists of senior WMD officials. Iraq intimidated WMD scientists & senior staff into refusing to be interviewed. Resolution 1441 required a complete & accurate declaration of all aspects of it's weapons of mass destruction programs. The declaration was supposed to provide information about any prohibited weapons activity & resolve outstanding questions about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs that had not been answered since UN inspectors left the country in 1998. UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors told the UN Security Council on December 19 that the declaration contained little new information! In other words, the IAEA drew conclusions on only a partial review with major non-cooperation on critical elements of their WMD programs from Iraq. The IAEA was flying blind in their final report to the UN! Practcally everything the IAEA got on Iraq's nuclear programs prior to 1998 was handed to them by Saddam's son- in-law when he defected. The IAEA didn't exactly do a bang up job before that point & wouldn't have done much without the mountain of evidence (50,000 documents on Iraq's nuclear weapons program) thanks to Hussein Kamel's defection. The IAEA was irrefutable proof that without complete cooperation from Iraq, the UN would be useless in playing hide & seek with a rouge dictator determined to keep all of his WMD programs.

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