My job is to return to New York to report this stage of affairs to the Security Council. I can't go into details until I do that. |
No member of the council, including the United States, has purported to give me instructions. They all recognize that their job is policy, my job is operation. |
Now, come on, it would be foolish for me to comment on it. |
Obviously there was no movement and obviously the best and most constructive thing for me to do is to take this back to those who really run the show, namely the (U.N.) Security Council, and see where we go from there. |
produce seed stocks of biological warfare agent. |
Quite frankly it would be utterly foolish not to think not to assume, absent us, that they are doing it again, |
She's doing OK. She's a fighter, like I said, she's a fighter, and I really believe she's gonna pull through. |
Silly to think we could have serious conversations in our office. |
Talk about their shortfall in the last few days on documents leading automatically to some kind of enforcement is a bit exaggerated. We need the whole picture, |
that same game they played with my team. |
The chemical and biological (weapons), there is no ambiguity. They are able to produce those weapons. |
the experts as a whole said the whole picture is that Iraq put chemical weapons in these warheads. |
The game is only just afoot. And there is yet more to come and there have been some hints of both good cooperation but also some inconsistencies that demonstrate, I think, that the road ahead is somewhat bumpy. |
The inspectors will need to be able to go below the ground, ... At the end of my time, we were starting to use ground-penetrating radar. They're going to need that, they're going to need to be able to literally look underground. |
The Iraqis have had three years to do such things, three years without inspections, and throughout that period, they have claimed that they have no weapons of mass destruction. If that is the truth, why not have inspectors come back and look and see and prove to the world that you don't have any of those weapons? |