"As for compliance with UN Res 1441, the Resolution does not call for "basic" compliance. It does not call for any kind of qualified compliance. It does not--in short--allow for the sort of excuse-making and special pleading that you seem so eager to offer the regime of Saddam Hussein. It calls for full, unconditional and immediate compliance by Iraq which was not given, as explicitly asserted by Hans Blix in the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission Quarterly Report governing the relevant inspection.

Compliance with UNR 1441 was violated on Dec 7, 2002 with the Iraqi regime's fraudulent "Complete and Full Declaration". The declaration was declared non-compliant by Hans Blix in his official capacity as chief inspector for UNMOVIC."