Former U.N. Inspectors Cite New Report as Validation - WaPo

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washingtonpost.com
Former U.N. Inspectors Cite New Report as Validation

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 8, 2004; Page A30

Two former chief United Nations weapons inspectors said yesterday that the latest report on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs proved that U.N. sanctions, inspections and monitoring had succeeded in keeping the Iraqi leader's illicit arms programs in check from 1991 until the invasion of March 2003.

The report released Wednesday by U.S. weapons inspector Charles A. Duelfer confirmed that the Iraqi leader had destroyed his chemical and biological weapons stockpiles in the 1990s and had effectively ended his elementary efforts to pursue nuclear weapons.

"We can see today that the inspections worked," said Rolf Ekeus, the director of the first United Nations Special Commission and former Swedish ambassador to the United States, who led the first inspectors into Iraq in 1991. Ekeus said the report documented that most all of Hussein's weapons and prohibited production equipment and facilities had by 1995 either been destroyed or placed in non-weapons activities.

Hans Blix, the chief U.N. inspector from 2000 to 2003, said in a telephone interview from Sweden that Duelfer's report showed that "international inspection is another means of war without fighting."

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1. Dagblast it again, PAGE A30!

Didn't the WaPo already admit they buried all the good stuff?

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2. "international inspection is another means of war without fighting."

Kick for a couple of DU'ers.

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3. silly bush

"Should I take the word of a madman?" No shithead, take the word of Hans Blix and the U.N. inspectors.

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4. Kick.

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