[operation] Rockingham Was Spinning Reports And Emphasizing

Our Guys Working This Area For A Living All Believe Chalabi And All Those Guys In Their Bond Street Suits Are Charlatans. To Take Them For A Source Of Anything Except A Fantasy Trip Would Be A Real Stretch. But It's An Article Of Faith Among Those With No Military Experience That The Iraqi Military Is Low-hanging Fruit.

The Most Dangerous Thing Iraq Could Have Ever Had Was A Nuclear Weapon. The Nuclear Weapon Iraq Was Trying To Build Was Not Deliverable By Bomb Or Ballistic Missile. It Was A Large, Bulky Device That They Hoped To Bury And Set Off To Let The World Know They Had A Nuclear Weapon. They Never Achieved That.

While We Were Never Able To Provide 100 Percent Certainty Regarding The Disposition Of Iraq's Proscribed Weaponry, We Did Ascertain A 90-95 Percent Level Of Verified Disarmament. This Figure Takes Into Account The Destruction Or Dismantling Of Every Major Factory Associated With Prohibited Weapons Manufacture, All Significant Items Of Production Equipment, And The Majority Of The Weapons And Agent Produced By Iraq.

That We Have Collectively Failed To Halt And Repudiate The War In Iraq Makes Us Even Worse Than The Germans.

[operation] Rockingham Was Spinning Reports And Emphasizing Reports That Showed Non-compliance (by Iraq With Un Inspections) And Quashing Those Which Showed Compliance. It Was Cherry-picking Intelligence.