duelfer was also appointed by the cia to this job. i think both of them tried to give a straw to their governments to help them. duelfer said "no, sorry, there are no programs, but there are intentions," and the intentions he had gleaned from interviews with some of saddam's lieutenants. the fbi had also had an interview with saddam. i think it has to be looked at very carefully what was said in the isg report. i have not been able to check it lately, but the lieutenants had the impression that saddam would have done this. i think this is a very slim straw, what he would have done. the first reflection that occurs to me is that if the british prime minister or bush had come to their parliaments and said, "well, we are not sure that there are weapons of mass destruction but we fear they could reconstitute," i can't imagine they would have got an authorization to go to war for that purpose. secondly, i think it was wrong in substance. the monitoring would not have ended. it would have continued. hence there would have been an alarm inst

duelfer was also appointed by the cia to this job. i think both of them tried to give a straw to their governments to help them. duelfer said "no, sorry, there are no programs, but there are intentions," and the intentions he had gleaned from interviews with some of saddam's lieutenants. the fbi had also had an interview with saddam. i think it has to be looked at very carefully what was said in the isg report. i have not been able to check it lately, but the lieutenants had the impression that saddam would have done this. i think this is a very slim straw, what he would have done. the first reflection that occurs to me is that if the british prime minister or bush had come to their parliaments and said, "well, we are not sure that there are weapons of mass destruction but we fear they could reconstitute," i can't imagine they would have got an authorization to go to war for that purpose. secondly, i think it was wrong in substance. the monitoring would not have ended. it would have continued. hence there would have been an alarm inst