Cindy Sheehan "retires"

interesteddad
Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:56:17 +0000

D’yer Maker:

Actually, there was a period of time, say from '92 to '95, when Saddam cooperated fully with the UN weapons inspectors. It was like pulling teeth at first, but they were eventually given full access to the sites, the scientists, etc. and were able to document the destruction of virtually all of Saddam’s weapons.

The only item of signficiance was some unaccounted for bio/chem weapons materials. It turned out that these had indeed been disposed of, but in such an inept fashion that there were no records to prove it (the stuff had just been buried in the desert). Evenually Sadaam had his scientists lead the inspectors to the site so they could take soil samples.

The trouble started when Saddaam threw the inspectors out, starting in 1996 - 1998. That’s when he started hanging the BEWARE OF DOG signs.

He didn’t have WMD programs, but he wanted people to think he did. Blix, who expected to find programs when he returned in 2002 based on Saddam’s behavior, visited 500 sites including sites identified for him by the US and European intelligence. He found nothing.