This does not necessarily mean that such items could not exist. They might. There remain a long list of items unaccounted for, ... But it is not justified to jump to the conclusion that something exists just because it was unaccounted for. |
This is where we want to inspect. |
to seek and present credible evidence for their absence. |
UNSCOM had a practice of not revealing names of companies of suppliers of equipment to Iraq because they often had the possibility of getting information from these companies, and the best way to get these companies to talk to them was not to publish their names to start with, |
until that has happened. |
very happy on his behalf. |
We are not watching the breaking of toothpicks, |
We continue to investigate with the Iraqis, |
We expect them to accept what we have said and destroy the missiles as we have stated, ... They have done so in past always when we have requested so. |
We had hoped that it would clarify a lot of issues that remained open since 1998. It did give information about peaceful programs concerning biology and chemistry, but it did not really shed any new evidence from the chemical weapons and biological weapons program. |
We have not found any smoking guns. |
We have not seen a serious effort on the Iraqi side ... or evidence that would clear up the question marks. |
We have time. Iran will not be able to have an (atomic) bomb ready within five years. |
We know exactly who is going to be there, and the advance team that I am going to lead, |
We must recognize that there are limitations [to intelligence] and that misinterpretations can occur, |