----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 8:37 PM Subject: Re: Bitter Fruit
> Let me focus on this one point. Are you saying that Saddam was not > throwing up roadblocks for the inspectors in the latter part of the '90s. > Did Clinton conclude that, as a result of these roadblocks, the inspectors > were no longer capable of verifying that the WMD programs had not been > restarted. Thus, he felt that bombing suspected sites, which were off > limits to the inspectors, was a better course of action than to continue as > things has happened. I have done a bit of research and found at http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9812/15/un.iraq/ a report by the chief inspector. Quoting a bit, we have: <quote> In the report, delivered to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan late Tuesday, Butler said Baghdad has not lived up to its promise to give unconditional access to U.N. inspectors trying to determine if Iraq has abandoned its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs. "Iraq's conduct ensured that no progress was able to be made in either the fields of disarmament or accounting for Iraq's prohibited weapons program," Butler wrote. <end quote> and <quote> Butler said the U.N. Special Commission, known as UNSCOM, had "clear evidence that Iraq had taken advance actions at certain of the locations planned for inspection in order to defeat the purposes of inspection." As a result of this, Butler said he decided not to conduct the full range of inspections the team had planned. <end quote> This is consistent with my memory. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
