.... So who do we believe?
Tenet or Fischer?
I can see why in hindsight, both would lie through their eye teeth.
Which is why Blix and UNMOVIC was a more reliable source of information.
SECURITY COUNCIL 7 MARCH 2003
Oral introduction of the 12th quarterly report of UNMOVIC
Executive Chairman Dr. Hans Blix
...Mr. President,
Let me conclude by telling you that UNMOVIC is currently drafting the work programme, which resolution 1284 (1999) requires us to submit this month. It will obviously contain our proposed list of key remaining disarmament tasks; it will describe the reinforced system of ongoing monitoring and verification that the Council has asked us to implement; it will also describe the various subsystems which constitute the programme, e.g. for aerial surveillance, for information from governments and suppliers, for sampling, for the checking of road traffic, etc.
How much time would it take to resolve the key remaining disarmament tasks? While cooperation can and is to be immediate, disarmament and at any rate the verification of it cannot be instant. Even with a proactive Iraqi attitude, induced by continued outside pressure, it would still take some time to verify sites and items, analyse documents, interview relevant persons, and draw conclusions.
It would not take years, nor weeks, but months. Neither governments nor inspectors would want disarmament inspection to go on forever. However, it must be remembered that in accordance with the governing resolutions, a sustained inspection and monitoring system is to remain in place after verified disarmament to give confidence and to strike an alarm, if signs were seen of the revival of any proscribed weapons programmes.
Security Council 7 March 2003
The Iraq government's 2002 declaration to the UNSC was truthful, complete and accurate.
Hans Blix was getting close to the truth.
The evidence proves Iraqi dissidents, the US and Israel governments were all lying. Many people in the CIA were giving accurate information, but that intel was selectively ignored because it didn't support Cheney's case for starting an unprovoked war with Iraq..
Now the same sources are lying again, this time about Iran's nuclear weapon program.