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To: Neocon who wrote (2596)	1/22/2003 1:52:44 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

We UNSCOM inspectors simply did not have the resources to win a game of hide and seek. The same is true today. And reiterates my previous point this morning.. UN inspectors are not supposed to be investigators.. Thus, since Iraq is not cooperating, and it's "records" cannot be trusted, we have to check EVERYTHING... Which means anything we ask for must be provided without hesitation or obstruction. Since they have already obstructed UN inspection efforts, they are not in compliance. Since their own "self-inspection" failed to turn up those 12 empty warheads (which could be used for nothing else but chemical weapons), the onus must fall upon us to conduct a full inspection ourselves (at Iraqi expense, IMO).. Thus, there are two strategies to follow here.. One is for the US to say we're in a "glide path" toward invasion and there is little, outside of the exile of Saddam's family, which can prevent it, or to say that Iraq's lack of proper record keeping and lack of cooperation has necessitated the UNSC engaging a much larger investigative inspection, requiring thousands of officials performing a full audit on all weapons related programs in the Iraqi government. That will mean analyzing all the money flows from Iraqi government bank accounts, including domestic and foreign transactions. I would be satisfied with such an invasive audit, conducted by thousands of bean-counters asking where every dinar came from and where it went.. Because you know that such an audit would turn up all kinds of stuff that the power elite in Iraq (and likely in other countries) would like to keep quiet. And such an audit would take years, meaning Saddam's government would be under the UN's thumb for that entire period of time. Hawk