Man you are an idiot .... you think it's someone's opinion that 1500 inspectors were in Iraq before the war!
Idiot.
Name calling again. Thats the true sign of a weak/small minded person. I have shown several times factual evidence by my links above that the U.N. inspectors were not being allowed in or being hindered from doing their jobs. Now show the evidence you find on your own, and not some news reports. You could try these places....
Google
Welcome to the UN. It's your world.
Or you could read a weapons inspectors testimony to the House.
CNN.com - Text of David Kay's unclassified statement - Oct. 2, 2003
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Why are we having such difficulty in finding weapons or in reaching a confident conclusion that they do not exist or that they once existed but have been removed? Our search efforts are being hindered by six principal factors:
1. From birth, all of Iraq's WMD activities were highly compartmentalized within a regime that ruled and kept its secrets through fear and terror and with deception and denial built into each program;
2. Deliberate dispersal and destruction of material and documentation related to weapons programs began pre-conflict and ran trans-to-post conflict;
3. Post-OIF looting destroyed or dispersed important and easily collectable material and forensic evidence concerning Iraq's WMD program. As the report covers in detail, significant elements of this looting were carried out in a systematic and deliberate manner, with the clear aim of concealing pre-OIF activities of Saddam's regime;
4. Some WMD personnel crossed borders in the pre/trans conflict period and may have taken evidence and even weapons-related materials with them;
5. Any actual WMD weapons or material is likely to be small in relation to the total conventional armaments footprint and difficult to near impossible to identify with normal search procedures. It is important to keep in mind that even the bulkiest materials we are searching for, in the quantities we would expect to find, can be concealed in spaces not much larger than a two car garage;
6. The environment in Iraq remains far from permissive for our activities, with many Iraqis that we talk to reporting threats and overt acts of intimidation and our own personnel being the subject of threats and attacks. In September alone we have had three attacks on ISG facilities or teams: The ISG base in Irbil was bombed and four staff injured, two very seriously; a two person team had their vehicle blocked by gunmen and only escaped by firing back through their own windshield; and on Wednesday, 24 September, the ISG Headquarters in Baghdad again was subject to mortar attack.
We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN. Let me just give you a few examples of these concealment efforts, some of which I will elaborate on later:
· A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.
· A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
· Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
· New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
· Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
· A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.
· Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the UN.
· Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -- well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
· Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles, and other prohibited military equipment.
In addition to the discovery of extensive concealment efforts, we have been faced with a systematic sanitization of documentary and computer evidence in a wide range of offices, laboratories, and companies suspected of WMD work. The pattern of these efforts to erase evidence -- hard drives destroyed, specific files burned, equipment cleaned of all traces of use -- are ones of deliberate, rather than random, acts.
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Wow, this is a weapons inspector that found all kinds of things in the country in 2002. I never said there were no inspectors before 2003. I said that Iraq had kept them out on numerous occasions and that is one reason they violated U.N. Resolution 1441 and others. You can find the resolution at this page since you like to let somebody else do research for you.
SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS - 2002
Look at resolution 1441, 1443, 1447, 1454. And this link as well
UN Security Council: Resolutions 2003
resolutions 1511, 1518. And here
UN Security Council: Resolutions 2004
resolutions 1538, 1546, 1557. And here
UN Security Council: Resolutions 2005
resolutions 1619, 1637. And here is another link for ya...
UN Security Council: Resolutions 2006
resolutions 1673, 1700, 1723, 1737. And one more link...
UN Security Council: Resolutions 2007
resolutions 1747, 1762.
Now this should be easy for you since I've done all the work. Now if you are smart enough to go and read any of what I put. Wait a minute I'm talking about you so I know that answer is no. You are not smart enough to go and read the evidence for yourself. You just want to parrot somebody elses work. Well I'm gonna let you read the evidence for yourself and finally come to your own opinion/conclusion. Without parroting somebody elses work.
POLLY NEEDS A NAP, A BOWL, AND A FREAKING SALTINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... especially people that support these war criminals ... the inspectors were allow into Iraq right before the illegal invasion FACT. Deal with it.
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