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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (111218)	8/13/2003 2:54:46 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Hans Blix said there was no compliance." If I recall, what Blix said was that Iraq had not yet complied with the UN order asking that Iraq prove that it had gotten rid of its WMDs. That is not incompatible with my statement: "there was plenty of evidence of Saddam's inclination to comply". In fact, Blix himself is quoted as agreeing with me. For example: Blix: Iraq Shows Signs of Compliance FoxNews, March 5, 2003 foxnews.com Blix: Iraq Showing New Signs Of Real Cooperation KOMO News Service, February 25, 2003 ... A key issue for many countries in deciding on war or more inspections is Iraq's cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors. Blix has said in previous reports that Iraq was cooperating more on the process of inspections than on the substance of its weapons of mass destruction programs. But he said Tuesday that Iraq had provided inspectors with half a dozen letters containing new information on weapons, including one letter saying the Iraqis had found a filled aerial bomb. He said Iraq had also reported finding handwritten documents on the disposal of "prohibited items in 1991." "There are pieces of evidence that are coming forward, but we still have to see this evidence," he told The Associated Press. "This is cooperation on substance," Blix told AP. "Substance is if you find weapons, you can destroy it. If you find documents, it may constitute evidence. That's not process." ... White House spokesman Ari Fleischer called the Iraqis' discovery "the very nature of the problem with Iraq - that all of a sudden (it) will start to discover weapons" it said it never had. Fleischer added: "The United Nations inspectors, when they left the country, said there were 400 such weapons unaccounted for. Now we found one - where are the other 399? How much time does Saddam Hussein want to dribble those out?" ... komotv.com -- Carl