In the case of WMD the UN didn't fail as we learn by day. Even the president is now interested in facts, as he said.
They absolutely failed boris...
The fact that every intelligence agency on the planet (as well as on the UNSC) essentially agreed that Iraq was in material breach of its obligations related to WMDs makes it clear that neither UNSCOM, nor UNMOVIC were properly able to do their jobs.
And the fact that David Kay reports that Saddam had taken direct charge of Iraq's continuing WMD R&D efforts is clear and convincing evidence that he had no intention of abiding by the UN mandates. He was personally going to authorize and control Iraq's further WMD R&D.
Furthermore, for those who happened to catch David Kay's comments yesterday on the Sunday news channels, they heard him state that Iraq was in the depths of coming to chaos anyway... It was becoming a state where, anything and everything, was for sale. Where scientists felt comfortable enough to cheat their own leader, Saddam, out of state funds, claiming to be working on WMDs..
The fact is that NO ONE had sufficient evidence to assert the status of Iraq's WMD program, EITHER PRO OR CON.
Someone was going to be proven right, either those who were convinced he had them, or those who believed he didn't. But there were no confirmable facts available to prove either case...
And that's the problem.. Saddam's regime was supposed to provide that transparency and he utterly, and it seems deliberately, failed to do so..
That means the entire inspection process was just a fruitless exercize from the very beginning..
It would not EVER achieve confidence of Iraq's compliance, or of Saddam's renunciation of future WMD development.
Thus, it was an effort of futility, or even an open fraud.
And how the UN permitted the inspections process to become such a neutered program of enforcement of those UNSC resolutions is something that should definitely be investigated.
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