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To: neolib who wrote (182937)	3/5/2006 2:18:47 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What is unequivocal is that Iraq's disclosures in 2003 were pretty damn accurate. Yeah.. right.. that's why UNMOVIC listed 26 areas which remained unresolved regarding Iraq's WMD programs. Please start on page 19 for a list of these unresolved issues: un.org And then turn to Page 48 for a discussion of the documents that had ORIGINALLY been the cause of Saddam ceasing his cooperation with UNSCOM in 1998, the discovery of an internal Iraqi Air Force inventory inspection that stated that INSTEAD OF 19,000 Aerial Chemical Bombs having been expended against Iran during that war, only 13,000 had been used. This left a deficit of 6,000 warheads UNACCOUNTED FOR. When that document was discovered by UNSCOM, it was immediately confiscated by the Iraqi "minder" present at the time, and not returned for review until December, 2002. Guess what.. This issue was STILL unresolved in March, 2003, and remains unresolved to this date, although we accepted the statements of individuals who claimed to have knowledge of their destruction while I was with ISG. But there's no guarantee that they weren't shipped to Syria in exchange for "safe-haven" for Iraqi Ba'thists. No... please don't try and mis-state the situation in March, 2003. That's just being "French"... The reality was the UNMOVIC went for 90 days expecting Saddam to "drop trow" and disclose everything about the unresolved issues (which they already knew about previously). But instead.. Iraq obfuscated, obstructed (especially with regard to providing access to Iraqi scientists), lied, and deceived,.. Just as they had in the days of UNSCOM. Hawk, the problem is one of balance. WRT to Iraq you demand absolute proof of non-existence. No... I wanted accountability and full disclosure. I am not willing the ridiculous premise Iraq's tried to present that somehow they permitted thousands of WMD's to go "unaccounted" for.. Iraq's regime was FASTIDIOUS about keeping records. And I reject the premise they didn't know who had what, where. They had to be, because the entire regime was corrupt and the only way to keep dishonest people honest is to make them account for everything. Remember, this is what caused Al Capone's downfall.. his accountant keeping records so that Capone could be assured that his lesser thieves and rivals weren't stealing from his smuggling operations. It was no different with Saddam.. So yes... given the nature of Saddam's regime and the obligations he VOLUNTARILY AGREED TO, I demand proof of non-existence and full access to the scientific and professional personnel for interviews. Hawk