A War Begun in Failure

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from a paper i wrote on the current conflict...

In his report to the U.N., Blix stated that inspectors had been harassed, followed, spied upon, and disturbed in their duties on a daily basis. It was also noted that most of the 12,000 page document submitted by the Iraqi government consisted of pages that had been reprinted from earlier and could not provide solid evidence as to the location, condition, or quantity of weapons of mass destruction and their facilities. There was even proof that the overseers had lied to the inspection teams stating that no new VX nerve gases, the same gas used to exterminate the Kurds in the 80’s, had been produced since the Persian Gulf War and that research had not been done into improving the potency of the lethal nerve agent. This was called into question when inspectors discovered a document noting the “purity of the agent…in laboratory production, was higher than declared.”