The UN was Right, the Bush Administration was Wrong

Newsweek - We Had Good Intel—The U.N.'s

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. nuclear agency, told the Security Council on March 7, 2003, after his team had done 247 inspections at 147 sites: "no evidence of resumed nuclear activities ... nor any indication of nuclear-related prohibited activities at any related sites." He went on to say that evidence suggested Iraq had not imported uranium since 1990 and no longer had a centrifuge program. He concluded that Iraq's nuclear capabilities had been effectively dismantled by 1997 and its dual-use industrial plants had decayed. All these claims appear to be dead-on, based on Kay's findings.

Despite claims by the U.S. government of the existence of specific stockpiles of weapons and active weapons programs, they found no evidence of either.

Regarding missiles, despite administration claims that Iraq was churning out Scuds, the inspectors found none. They did, however, find some prohibited medium-range missiles, and were in the process of destroying them when the war began.

el - if I could see they had no WMDs any analyst not pursueing a political agenda could. Who was playing the politics? "We will not hesitate to discredit you," Vice President Cheney said to Blix before he began his job.