More - Richard Butler Quotes

They've got to tell us the whole truth about their weapons -- they've got to let us into the sites that we need to inspect to verify those facts and then destroy the weapons involved. That's the way out of this one.

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 Truth

If there was no prospect of this, the government of Iraq had no intention of continuing to work with the (U.N. Special) Commission.

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 Government

The only reason it's taken so long, ... is that from day one, Iraq dragged its feet, sought to conceal and obfuscate and keep us away from the things we have the legal right to find.

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I quite frankly don't think I'll be seeking an extension.

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As we were being thrown out, one of the last conversations I had with them (the Iraqi officials) was about their illegal work to extend their missile program,

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 Conversations

I have seen no evidence of Iraq providing weapons of mass destruction to non-Iraqi terrorist groups.

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Butler knows very well that Iraq cannot rebuild its arsenal of mass destruction weapons because the means to make these weapons have been destroyed.

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Obviously there was no movement and obviously the best and most constructive thing for me to do is to take this back to those who really run the show, namely the (U.N.) Security Council, and see where we go from there.

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We don't want our system misused in that way.

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But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

Richard Butler