I just don't take the UN's account as fact anymore. You apparently do. The UN gave wrong intel back to us and lied in order to protect Saddam. Try and prove me wrong when 'oil for food' has been reported as fact and France vetoed at the Sec. Council after being bribed by Saddam.
Whose side are you on lugsoul?
Here's the UN Report! The whole story is a fabrication and exaggeration! Somebody's covering up! The original amount was only 228 tons, but 380 tons are missing? If you go by the report only 196 tons were sealed? It's not adding up when you look at the UN's own documents. HMX and RDX were under the control of the UN. There is no mention of the RDX in their reports, only the HMX. So, when did the RDX go missing?
2. HMX
53. The relocation and consumption of HMX (a high explosive of potential use in nuclear weapons), as described in Iraq's backlog of semi-annual declarations, has been investigated by the IAEA. In those declarations, Iraq stated that, between 1998 and 2002, it had transferred 32 of the 228 tonnes of HMX which had been under IAEA seal as of December 1998 to other locations. In addition, Iraq stated that a very small quantity (46 kg) of HMX had been used at munitions factories for research and development. At the request of the IAEA, Iraq has provided further clarification on the movement and use of the HMX. In that clarification, Iraq indicated that the 32 tonnes of HMX had been blended with sulphur to produce industrial explosives and provided mainly to cement plants for quarrying, and that the research and development using the small quantity of HMX had been in the areas of personnel mines, explosives in civilian use, missile warhead filling and research on tanks.
54. IAEA inspectors have been able to verify and re-seal the remaining balance of approximately 196 tonnes of HMX, most of which has remained at the original storage location. The movement of the blended HMX and the other small quantity of HMX has also been documented by Iraq. However, it has not been possible to verify the use of those materials, as all of it is said to have been consumed through explosions and there are no immediately available technical means for verifying such uses. The IAEA will continue to investigate means of verifying the Iraqi statements about the use of the HMX and blended HMX."
http://www.iraqwatch.org/un/iaea/iaea-updatereport-012703.html
If you doubt the story because you don't believe the UN, just say so. But your arguments have been to try to cram the reported facts into your construct, and it doesn't work with the reported facts. If you want to cherry pick those, you can make anything "true."