If Iraq changed its mind, if it decided to obey the law, which it should, our people could be back there in four or six hours and start doing their inspections again, and we could get to the end of this. |
If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap. |
If there was no prospect of this, the government of Iraq had no intention of continuing to work with the (U.N. Special) Commission. |
In a more ideal world Saddam should be on trial in The Hague next to Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity. |
In light of this experience, that is, the absence of full cooperation by Iraq, it must regrettably be recorded again that the commission is not able to conduct the substantive disarmament work mandated to it by the Security Council and, thus, to give the council the assurances it requires with respect to Iraq's prohibited weapons programs. |
In my view, |
In the wildly theoretical circumstance that the only thing standing between the complete and verifiable disarmament of Iraq and the present situation where it can't be verified ... is me, of course I would go. |
In those presidential sites, we determined there were 1,100 buildings, some of them as large as Giants or Yankee stadium, really big warehouses, |
Iraq must have been listening. They can hear the drums of war beating, you know. It got their attention, |
Iraq's conduct ensured that no progress was able to be made in either the fields of disarmament or accounting for Iraq's prohibited weapons program. |
It is essential that Iraq is brought into conformity with the law. |
It is with great sadness that I take this decision, ... I have always acted with the best interests of the state at heart and, consistent with that, I felt bound to make this decision. |
It may be that we won't ever get 100 percent verification where physical parts have been torn apart and dispersed. |
It was a banding together. I got to know a tremendous amount of people just from repairing these trails, and I'm looking forward to sharing a trail with them. These are people I'll probably ride with the rest of my life. |
Like the Security Council, I take at face value their promise to offer full cooperation. |