December 16, 1998
November 17th, 2005
Operation Desert Fox under the Clinton Administration,
- Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
- Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons.
- The inspectors undertook this mission first 7.5 years ago at the end of the Gulf War when Iraq agreed to declare and destroy its arsenal as a condition of the ceasefire.
- The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again.
- The conclusions are stark, sobering and profoundly disturbing.
- So Iraq has abused its final chance.