1. After the weapons inspectors were pushed out of Iraq in 1998, they we back shortly after UN Resolution 1441 of November 8, 2002 was adopted.

2. By January 27th, 2003, Hans Bliz gave a progress report to the UN in which he said:

"Iraq has on the whole cooperated rather well so far with UNMOVIC in this field. The most Important point to make is that access has been provided to all sites we have wanted to inspect and with one exception it has been prompt. We have further had great help in building up the infastructure of our office in Baghdad and the field office in Mosui. Arrangements and services for our plane and our helicopters have been good. The environment has been workable."

Then in Bliz's summation he says:

"We have now an inspection appartus that permits us to send multiple inspection teams every day all over Iraq, by road or by air. Let me end by simply noting that that capability has been built-up in a short time and which is now operating, is at the disposal of the Security Council." (FROM UPTHREAD.)

I have pointed out thet the Blix report of Jan 27 states that Saddam had NOT cooperated, and that future efforts would be useless as long as he did not. (From BB).

Is one or the other of these statements wholly false? Or is the apparent contradiction merely as matter of selected context or omissions?

A