CarolC:

"Here you go, Teribus... the UNMOVIC Teams rush to the sites that were named and veryfy beyond any doubt that there are no weapons there. If they find any weapons there, then we'll know Saddam hasn't disarmed, and the inspectors will have done their job.

If you or the Bush administration were really interested in a peaceful solution to this situation, you and they wouldn't be using such a "lawyerly" definition of the inspectors' job."

In my post from which you quoted - I was referring to the sites specifically mentioned by the Iraqi Defector - I have still not heard whether or not inspectors have visited those sites - maybe we will hear about that on the 14th of this month when Dr. Hans Blix reports back to the UNSC.

If you actually believe that UNMOVIC were sent to Iraq to physically search for and uncover Iraq's WMD, then I would suggest that 100 odd inspectors comprise a woefully inadequate team to undertake such a task.

Read UNSC Resolution 1441

Read the description of UNMOVIC's role on the UN web site

No "lawyerly" definition or interpretation required on the part of anybody reading either.

If Iraq does not want war then it is painfully and obviously simple - They, the Ba'athist Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, must disarm or provide clear and verifiable evidence that stocks that were KNOWN to exist in 1998 have been destroyed and that the weapons programmes that produced them have been put beyond future use.