"The UN inspectors have found nothing that is an actual component of a weapon of mass destruction. If you want a weapon of mass destruction you have to go to Israel with its 400 nuclear weapons, which from its current actions in the Gaza strip is provably a threat to other people in the Mideast. Israel, it must be noted, stands in defiance of more UN Resolutions than Iraq is. "
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Quotes from Blix's report on Iraq:
(compare with media spin machine; CNN sent this "breaking news" email:Iraq has not fully cooperated with arms inspections, chief weapons inspector Hans Blix says, and U.N. team is stepping up efforts.)

"I turn now, Mr. President, to the key requirement of cooperation and Iraq's response to it. Cooperation might be said to relate to both substance and process. It would appear from our experience so far that Iraq has decided in principle to provide cooperation on process, notably access.

"A similar decision is indispensable to provide cooperation on substance in order to bring the disarmament task to completion through the peaceful process of inspection and to bring the monitoring task on a firm course.

"An initial minor step would be to adopt the long overdue legislation required by the resolutions.

"I shall deal first with cooperation on process. In this regard, it has regard to the procedures, mechanisms, infrastructure and practical
arrangements to pursue inspections and seek verifiable disarmament. While the inspection is not built on the premise of confidence, but may lead to confidence if it is successful, there must nevertheless be a measure of mutual confidence from the very beginning in running the operation of inspection. Iraq has, on the whole, cooperated rather well so far with UNMOVIC in this field.

"The most important point to make is that access has been provided to all sites we have wanted to inspect. And with one exception, it has been [without] problems. We have further had a great help in building up the infrastructure of our office in Baghdad and the field office in Mosul. Arrangements and services for our plane and our helicopters have been good.

"The environment has been workable. Our inspections have included universities, military bases, presidential sites and private residences. Inspections have also taken place on Fridays, the Muslim day of rest, on Christmas Day and New Year's Day. These inspections have been conducted in the same manner as all other inspections. We seek to be both effective and correct. "

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/27/sprj.irq.transcript.blix/index.html