"By 2000 anyone who said he knew Saddam had weapons was lying and this includes Junior, Cheney, and Rumsfeld."
Hmmmm...... According to your (fictional) version of
reality, it seems that most of the world's intelligence
agencies including the UN were lying as late as November
2002.......
<font size=4>Iraq: UNSCOM's hit list
UN officials maintain that despite the success the inspectors had before the end of 1998 in tracking down much of Saddam's secret nuclear, missile and chemical-biological programmes, they believe that much of the biological warfare programme remains concealed.....
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.....This includes 1,900 litres of botulinum toxin, the poisonous bacteria that causes botulism; 8,500 litres of anthrax; two tons of aflatoxins which produce liver cancer, as well as clostridium, better known as gas gangrene. Thousands of chemical warfare munitions also remain unaccounted for, along with some 600 tons of precursors that could make 200 tons of VX nerve agent. Iraqi defectors claim the Iraqis had loaded six missile warheads with VX before the 1991 war.....
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Resolution 1441<font size=4>
08 November 2002
All 15 council members voted for the resolution: permanent members China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; and non-permanent members Bulgaria, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea, Ireland, Mauritius, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, and Syria.<font size=4>
The resolution states that Iraq remains in material breach of council resolutions relating to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and requires that Baghdad give UNMOVIC and IAEA a complete and accurate declaration of all aspects of its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs and ballistic missiles systems, as well as information on other chemical, biological, and nuclear programs that are supposed to be for civilian purposes, within 30 days.....
....Recognizing the threat Iraq's noncompliance with Council resolutions and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles poses to international peace and security....
....Deploring the fact that Iraq has not provided an accurate, full, final, and complete disclosure, as required by resolution 687 (1991), of all aspects of its programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles with a range greater than one hundred and fifty kilometres, and of all holdings of such weapons, their components and production facilities and locations, as well as all other nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to nuclear-weapons-usable material,
Deploring further that Iraq repeatedly obstructed immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to sites designated by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), failed to cooperate fully and unconditionally with UNSCOM and IAEA weapons inspectors, as required by resolution 687 (1991), and ultimately ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA in 1998,
Deploring the absence, since December 1998, in Iraq of international monitoring, inspection, and verification, as required by relevant resolutions, of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles, in spite of the Council's repeated demands that Iraq provide immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), established in resolution 1284 (1999) as the successor organization to UNSCOM, and the IAEA, and regretting the consequent prolonging of the crisis in the region and the suffering of the Iraqi people....
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