Before the Iraq War, did anyone conduct inspections of Iraq for WMDs?

Question

Did the USA conduct inspections? How about the UN?

PLEASE INCLUDE SOURCES!!! That would be greatly appreciated because I am reading conflicting posts by people.

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Answer 1

Many did but that is not the answer the Gang Of Pirates wanted.

Scott Ritter led a team till he found that the American Government really was using plants among his group to spy. Later Hans Blix also "inspected" but was again shoved aside by the GOP.

The GOP wanted a war no matter what, all else was just show and tell until they could do it, That it was all fraud did not matter to them.

Answer 2

Repeatedly close inspections by the UN during the Clinton Administration was done to search for WMDs in Iraq--and they never found any.

It's apparent the WMD story was a false cover for going to Iraq. And since when did the US really care how a dictator ran their country? The US doesn't lift a finger to help any country---unless it stands to gain by its efforts.

Logically, OIL is about the only thing Iraq has going for it that we can benefit from.....and evidently, that's NOT working out all that well, as US per gallon gas prices are still unstable.

And it doesn't help Bush to blame strained economic relations between Mexico and Iran, showing us that Bush doesn't handle international diplomatic affairs all that well.

Answer 3

If I can remember right, Clinton asked Saddam like 4 times if the Inspectors can go in Iraq and inspect the country for WMD, and each time he replied no. We knew that there were nerve agents that were used from the first Gulf War.

Answer 4

First,WMD stands for weapons of mass destruction.There are 3 common classes: Nuclear,Biological,and Chemical.
Iraq had an active biological weapons program,UN found evidence of the program as well as test reports of a delivery system.
Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Iran as well as the Kurds was documented by the U.N.
Iraq's nuclear program was pretty much a hoax perpetrated by Hussein.He wanted the world to believe he was well on the way to developing a nuclear device.We called his bluff,and he lost.

Answer 5

Yes, the UN agency, the IAEA, did 400 unscheduled inspections in the 4 months prior to the US invasion. They found nothing, and were getting good cooperation from Saddam toward the end.

Answer 6

Al Gore was paid in carbon offset credits to look the other way but he was still hanging on by a chad.

Actually UN was kicked out of Iraq several times

Answer 7

Yes. The United Nations-and their inspectors concluded there wasn't evidence of WMD--of course, that wasn't what Bush wanted to hear. So he faked some "evidence" and invaded Iraq anyway.

Answer 8

yes UN inspectors had been there on and off for years, (since the Gulf War), in fact bush had to tell them to leave so he could start bombing...

Answer 9

The chief US weapons inspector had concluded that Iraq had no stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons before the US-led invasion.

Answer 10

Both authorities conducted inspections.

Iraq developed three ways of hiding their equipment and weapons:

1) Truckers carried equipment and materials 24 hours per day on the highways so as to avoid suspicion and inspection.

2) Materials were moved to military bases and access to the bases was restricted for reasons of national security. (We have translated Iraqi documents that offer evidence of which bases were used, and they're available at the US Army's FOIA web site.)

3) Iraqi officials are claiming that air lifts were used to move materials into Syria in the several weeks before the invasion in 2003.

THE REASON WHY YOU ARE GETTING CONFLICTING ANSWERS IS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE LOOK FOR INFORMATION, OTHERS DON'T.