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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Considering the inspectors are diligently working to determine what happened to those womd, we cannot conclusively determine whether those weapons still exist until they are finished.
To judge either way at this point is hasty speculation, though considering Saddam's sly ways it is reasonable to speculate those womd exist. If at the end of the inspection process, Hans Blix declares that it cannot be determined by the inspectors that Iraq has disarmed, then this sort of speculation becomes more credible.
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Chewie, the inspector's job is NOT to find WoMD or violations hidden by Iraq, their job is to oversee and verify the destruction of WoMD.
Your argument completely dismisses the fact that no group of 100 or 1,000 or 1,000,000 men can cause Iraq to disarm without complete Iraqi cooperation or the use of force.
Without complete and total cooperation by the Iraqi's as demanded by the UN, the inspectors are nearly worthless because they are trying to do a job they weren't designed for and could never do. They are being given the burden of proving that Iraq has WoMD, but their job is not to prove anything. Their job is to oversee the destruction of WoMD that are KNOWN to exist.
12 years is not hasty, and those 12 years have been allowed specifically because of Saddam's sly ways and the willingness of the world to believe and trust him because the world so desperately wants peace it's willing to ignore the facts. I'm not just pointing a finger at the rest of the world here. The US did it's fair share of ignoring this during the 90's as well.
There will be NO end to the inspection process as long as Saddam is allowed to use the prospect of peace to protect his despicable, dangerous, and deadly regime, and that is exactly what he has been doing, what his is doing now, and what he will do in the future if he is given the opportunity.