oops... maybe we need those inspectors after all

from The Guardian UK:

Equipment which could be used in an illicit nuclear bomb programme has disappeared from previously monitored sites in Iraq, and radioactively contaminated items from there have been found abroad, the International Atomic Energy Agency has told the UN.

The UN inspectors' presence would have eventually removed all doubt that there were no weapons, so the US needed them out of the picture if the regime change operation was to take place under the guise of an anti-WMD crusade. Why prevent the UN from completing the inspections and spend hundreds of millions to find out what the inspectors were already telling us in 2002? The threat was speculative at best, and at worst, non-existent.

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