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? |
The only reason it's taken so long, ... is that from day one, Iraq dragged its feet, sought to conceal and obfuscate and keep us away from the things we have the legal right to find. |
The proposal for national missile defense, as articulated now, is the wrong answer to the right question. The right question is: what do we do about rogue states like Saddam's Iraq? |
the right to secure full and free access at any time to material and other items, which, in its judgment, may be necessary for its monitoring and verification activities. |
then it will be up to the (Security) Council to decide what other actions will be taken. |
There's a new administration in control now. It should put its muscle behind that and make clear to the Russians that it's wrong -- this is the post Cold War period. Russia shouldn't be patronizing a rogue like Saddam Hussein. |
These are very practical things, very important things. |
They dusted off a proposal that was three and a half years old that they put to me in 1998, which was a joke. They were told then it was a joke, and they're doing it again. I'm sorry. This is not serious. |
They've got to tell us the whole truth about their weapons -- they've got to let us into the sites that we need to inspect to verify those facts and then destroy the weapons involved. That's the way out of this one. |
They've turned the lights off and it's pretty hard to take pictures when you've got no lights, ... In other places, they've simply obstructed the cameras, put bags over the lenses. It looks a little bit like, 'the cat's away, the video mice will play.' |
This is a good opportunity for us to measure where we are during the early stage of the season. |
This is nothing, ... We have planted seeds. Most of north Idaho now is filled with the people who escaped multiculturalism or diversity or whatever you want to call it. |
This is nothing. We have planted seeds. Most of north Idaho now is filled with the people who escaped multiculturalism or diversity or whatever you want to call it. |
We can't work that way...We'll be talking about getting access in a way which shows respect for Iraqi security. |