Re: Bush43 Haters Can\'t Have It Both Ways
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"ONLY monitoring they could do was via satellite."
Quite simply not true. There is ample information on the monitoring systems used by UNSCOM, the IAE and others. For a start, inspectors regularly visited the sites to see whether their seals had been tampered with. If you wish to read about it I suggest starting with Dilip Hiro's book on Iraq.
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You do realize that all inspectors had been repeatedly kicked out of Iraq right? There was no real monitoring.
From the NYT article.
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In an interview, a senior atomic energy agency official said the agency had used the reconnaissance photos to study roughly 100 sites in Iraq but that the imagery's high cost meant that the inspectors could afford to get updates of individual sites only about once a year.
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World Class Monitoring.
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Agency inspectors, in visiting other countries, have discovered tons of industrial scrap, some radioactively contaminated, from Iraq, the report noted.
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No nuclear program for sure.
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