Saddam clearly wasn't complying, no matter how harsh the sanctions put on him were or how high a pile of BS Kerry wants to pile on top of the facts.
And author on Fox today who has interviewed and written about Iraq said he talked to Duelfer and that they found out that only when the entire force of the United States military was around the borders of Iraq, poised to strike -- literally on the even of the invasion -- did Saddam Hussein admit to his "cabinet" that they didn't have anything.