What Mr. Ritter's words tell us, Bruce, is that we did not know what Hussein had after 1995. We couldn't say with certainty that he had completely disarmed but we knew his weapon production and storage capacity was effectively reduced to zero. If we knew what he had then we could say for certain whether he was armed or not. It's only because we are unsure that we cannot say what he has if anything.

Now, think about that. By 1995, there are no WMD in Iraq nor any possibility for them. By 1997, Blix was saying that Iraq had no nuclear weapons program and when they dismantled it, the UN received an accurate accounting of all their material. This info is in those links in the very words of those men.

Then somehow, according to you and Teribus, Iraq suddenly had 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons of Sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent and 30,000 munitions for delivery of chemical agents along with mobile weapon labs and trips to Africa to get uranium. And they get this expensive, expansive, ambitious, sophisticated, thoroughly professional, efficient, diabolical weapons system having nothing two years before while being closely watched and while suffering under severe sanctions--amazing!!

Then, three years later, 9-11 goes down but Blix and Ritter are dismissing claims that Iraq had rearmed and by 2004, Blix is calling the so-called material breach of 687 as stipulated in 1441 "baseless."

So apparently Iraq went from a nation with WMD capability to a nation with no WMD capability but then mysteriously regained it very suddenly but then lost it again a couple of years later so completely that neither Blix nor Ritter even think to suppose they could have had anything to do with 9-11.

Something's wrong with that picture and that something is the assertion that Blix and Ritter stated that Iraq had rearmed to alarming proportions in 1999. Could we see what document you refer to? If you remove this anomaly, you get a smooth record of Blix and Ritter never believing the rearming stories.