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Thread #106771   Message #2213437
Posted By: Teribus
11-Dec-07 - 06:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
Subject: RE: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
Oh Bobert, my apologies I forgot.

Do you know that Report you got the Hans Blix quote from. Can you refresh everyones mind about what he said about co-operation being a two part process. Then we will all know that you have actually read it and then we can compare that to what I said previously.

Dr. Hans Blix - 27th January, 2003:
I turn now, Mr. President, to the key requirement of cooperation and Iraq's response to it. Cooperation might be said to relate to both substance and process. It would appear from our experience so far that Iraq has decided in principle to provide cooperation on process, notably access.

A similar decision is indispensable to provide cooperation on substance in order to bring the disarmament task to completion through the peaceful process of inspection and to bring the monitoring task on a firm course.

An initial minor step would be to adopt the long overdue legislation required by the resolutions."

Teribus: "The wording of 1441 allowed for no "material breach" of its provisions - all in all there were seven such instances, while the Iraqis co-operated fully on matters relating to access, they were very reluctant when it came to the area of disclosure and Blix was still complaining about this in his last report to the Security Council."

Now going back to that Report delivered by the good Dr. Blix, Bobert:
- Can you recall him mentioning any problems?
- Did Dr. Blix mention any conflict between the information provided by the Iraq Authorities and hard evidence gathered by his inspection teams?
- Was there any mention of the discovery of some 3000 documents hidden at an Iraqi scientist's house related to enrichment of uranium?
- Did the good Dr. Blix table his concerns about this discovery and the implications of this discovery?
- Did he detail how many U2 Flights, specifically requested by UNMOVIC and required under the terms of 1441, had taken place?
- Did he mention how many names out of the 3500 Iraqi scientists and engineers known to have worked on Saddam's WMD programmes, the Iraqi Authorities submitted to UNMOVIC for interview?
- Did he mention how many of those scientists and engineers were interviewed?

Or did Dr. Blix clearly state that everything was sweetness and light.

Bobert rest assured of one thing - if you don't answer the above questions, I will.