The principal part of this document thus presents clusters of unresolved disarmament issues, which are to be addressed by the inspection process (and Iraq) and from which key remaining disarmament tasks are to be identified and selected for early solution. Some of the material used in the cluster part is from the period after 1998. However, a short separate part of this document is specifically dedicated to disarmament questions related to the period after 1998, when UNSCOM inspections ended. Did Iraq resume any proscribed activities in this period and did it produce or import any proscribed weapons or other proscribed items?
Yes, it is certain that Iraq had banned weapons. They had them in 1998, and showeved no evidence that they were destroyed. The weapons are either still hidden somewhere in Iraq, or they were sent away to a sympathetic state such as Syria.
WARNING: Gathering WMD storm a crock. See what Clinton told nation in 1998...
THE ROAD ENDS FOR WMD ON WHEELS
Coalition forces enter possible WMD site
Initial tests suggest WMD "cocktail" found in Iraq (**Of special note--post #58, by Archy)
U.S. finds new evidence of Iraqi WMD (NBC training school, antidotes)
Chem-weapons lab believed discovered
BRITS' CHILLING CHEM-NUKE FIND
CAPTURED FOES FOUND WITH CHEM-WAR GEAR
MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River
Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts?
U.S. probing nuclear facility (Al Tuwaitha Follow Up)
Team Inspects suspected plutonium site (update by the journalist who broke original story, NEW info)
Underground Nuclear Facility Found in Iraq
Marines hold Iraqi nuclear site built by French
U.S. Marines Guard Secret Iraqi City with Very Hot Nuclear Radiation Levels
And from Freeper "HatSteel":
Terrorist devices, chemical weapons found in Iraq
Suspicious Iraqi Drums - UPDATE
Suspected bioweapons labs found
Searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Larry Elder
Iraq's Weapons and the Road to War
Iraqi Scientist Links Weapons to 'Dual Use' Facilities, White House Says
IRAQ: U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms
Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert
Herald Sun: Soldiers find Iraqi chemical 'dump'
***Germany's leading role in arming Iraq
*Germany intercepts (30 tonnes) chemicals (may be used to make nerve gas) for N Korea
New DOD team to hunt for intel as well as weapons
Capture of chemical expert could help U.S. weapons hunt in Iraq (Emad Husayn Abdulla al-Ani)
Belgium Finds Nerve Gas Ingredient in Letters
Banned missile programme found in Iraq
Administration to Announce 'Rollback' Strategy for WMD
Suspicious Iraqi Drums Preliminary Testing Suggests Chemical Agents; More Testing Needed
2 trailers deemed biological arms labs
***Table 2: Characteristics of Chemical Warfare Agents: Commercial Uses of Chemicals or Precursor Chemicals ***CENTAF IRAQ'S CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROGRAM
Second Iraq is a country of mountains, swamps, flatland and desert so hid something from plan sight is easy. Remember the one underground bunker that was build so well under a parking lot in Baghdad that we did not know it was there until a lone Marine open a locked door that lead to the tunnel.
Third givern Saddam's mindset you would be a fool to believe that Saddam gave up on having WMD's when his very record and name in Arabic means "The one to confront."
Shifting the blame to Clinton is getting rather old. Time for the Republicans to stand up and take responisbility for themselves. Unless they want to aknowelege that Clinton is their de facto leader; after all, they did spend a lot of years saying 'yes sir Mr. Clinton. What would you like us to do now, mr. Clinton?'.
I saw a press conference with Jacoby and Warner after the testimony/hearing and Jacoby wanted it made clear the reason they "could not verify" the existence of the weapons was because we did not have american personel on the ground in Iraq.
In other words, New York Times and Vanity Fair type reporting from Bloomberg here, taking statements out of context to portray exactly the opposite of what was actually said. A correct summary would have said that the Pentagon/DIA had no doubts as to the existence of chemical weapons, but that they did not have hard data on the precise locations of the weapons or facilities.