Richard Butler Iraq Quotations

I think I can feel a new spirit and good cooperation from the Iraqi side.

clear evidence that Iraq had taken advance actions at certain of the locations planned for inspection in order to defeat the purposes of inspection.

It is essential that Iraq is brought into conformity with the law.

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

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,

We can't work that way...We'll be talking about getting access in a way which shows respect for Iraqi security.

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.

If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap.

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