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To: GST who wrote (123089)	1/12/2004 8:02:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The inspectors did an extraordinarily good job up to 1998, and they were do a good job in 2003 One, they didn't do a great job, because an inspector isn't supposed to have to play hide-and-seek, which they had to do. They did their best under the circumstances. Two, what does it matter if they did a good job or not? Did they do a good job from 1998 to 2003? That is what matters! If it had been up to the UN, Saddam would still be in power, no inspectors would be in Iraq, and the sanctions would be lifted by now. Saddam could be restarting his nuclear programs without interference. As Abba Ebban asked of the UN in May 1967, when Nasser told the UN "peacekeepers" in the Sinai to scram (which they did, immediately and without fuss), "Of what use is a fire brigade that vanishes at the first sight of smoke and flames?"