Talk:United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission

The following from the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission main page has been relocated here until a source for the quote/info can be identified. Its accuracy is not in dispute. Artificial Intelligence 06:45, 4 Jun 2005 (EDT)


 * UNMOVIC established that large amounts of biological and chemical weapons were unaccounted for, but was unable to determine whether this reflected clandestine destruction of the weapons or simply errors in Iraq's own accounting systems. Some inspectors, including Hans Blix, have speculated that Iraq may have been trying to maintain the illusion of a hidden weapons program as a tactic to deter invasion or intimidate its enemies. In any case, the postwar failure of the United States to uncover biological, chemical or nuclear weapons inside Iraq contrasts sharply with claims that the Bush administration made prior to the war in which Iraq was alleged to possess large stockpiles of banned weapons.