From: Randall Parker 

Gene,

Thoughtful of you to preface your pure fantasy with the "pure
fantasy" label.

As David Kay points out, it took the UNSCOM inspectors 4 year to find the
bioweapons program because, yes, Saddam really did hinder and hide stuff:
    http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000902.html#000902

Per Alhmark and David Kay certainly had their inspectors physically
obstructed by the Iraqis from doing their jobs:
     http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000511.html#000511

Kay got threats phoned to him in the middle of the night and had to watch
the Iraqis smuggle stuff out of a building he wanted entry into:
    http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000236.html#000236

Inspections are getting harder to do since the intelligence on what
countries are doing requires external sources as indicators. But those
indicators will decline in usefulness as countries develop indigenous
abilities to make needed equipment:
    http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000593.html#000593

Charles Duelfer describes the obstructionism he encounted as an UNSCOM inspector:
    http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000227.html#000227

Of course North Korea isn't going to allow inspectors in to discover which
of North Korea's underground facilities are being used to develop nukes and
other weapons. So we don't have to worry about inspections failing in North
Korea.

Gene McAloon wrote:

>
> Pure fantasy.  Saddam was doing nothing to hinder the first inspection regime
> and began to hinder somewhat the second regime under Butler because he knew
what
> even the US public found out only later, that under Butler the inspection
teams
> were riddled with CIA agents.
>

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