According to CIA factbook, Iraq has 437,072 sq km, France has 545,630 sq km and Portugal has 91,951 sq km.
Yet, Mr. Perle states that "It was never the role of the inspectors to scour the country looking for hidden weapons. They had no capacity to do that. They were a hundred in a country the size of France and Portugal put together and Hans Blix understood that perfectly well."
Europeans will be rolling on the floor laughing. For German or French reader, Perle destroyed his own credibility.