even as late as every hans blix was saying we do not know whether he still has these he listed a whole load of v.x. nerve gas mustard gas a different agents chemical agents so we didn't know and he. willing to allow. other countries to come to interview the scientists to see the order trails to know whether he got rid of them or not in that situation it would have been ludicrous to have had a million strong army but was on the doorstep of iraq simply go away when the resolution fourteen forty one had given given him a final opportunity to comply with its obligations but how the world beyond that point would have happened if he would have simply rebuilt those programs with impunity knowing that he was absolutely untouchable and the world would not do anything against him we would have then been precipitated into a far more major conflict into the in the middle east between iran and iraq with devastating consequences destruction of the world's oil supplies it was a terrible situation and it was right that we can the action that we did now the fact that the united nations didn't sanction