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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (160026)	4/1/2005 8:53:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Could have verified whether WMD were there by doing the inspections Only if Saddam had cooperated. He didn't. UN Inspectors are not like police detectives, you know. They had no power to compel testimony that could outweigh what Saddam promised to do to those who spoke out of turn. They tried to get the scientists & their families out of the country so they could talk. Saddam refused to let them go. They ran around for months and found nothing. Xeroxes of old declarations. Statements that everything had been destroyed with no paperwork - in a regime known for marking everything in triplicate. A few more months of this would have changed no minds. No, the only way to get any actual information was to invade. The only way to have gotten good information was to invade fast before the regime had time to dispose of any evidence, but we didn't do that. Instead we gave Saddam 14 months clear warning.