About WMD Intelligence

I really do not want to turn this into a political ranting blog. Those are boring. But, with all the talk about WMDs and lieing presidents, I thought this report would be interesting to some of y'all.

The aforementioned report is an inverview with Bill Tierney, an inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq. Let me bullet a couple of interesting things he said.

• UNSCOM could pursue a lead and approach an inspection target from various angles to cut off an escape route, but at some point, the Iraqis would hold up their guns and keep us out.
• There was no question that Iraq had triggering mechanisms for a nuke, the question was whether they had enriched enough uranium.
• A local technician stood by while we opened a computer and found a flight simulation for a missile taking off from the Iraqi desert in the same area used during the First Gulf War and flying west towards Israel.
• After seventeen resolutions pleading with the Iraqis to be nice, the light bulb still didn’t go off that the entire concept is fundamentally flawed.
• Maybe the problem was giving a mission that entailed the possible use of force to an organization with the goal of eliminating the use of force

Interesting read. Enjoy!