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I don't believe it's our job to recontruct the country. The Iraqi people will have to reconstruct that country over a period of time...Tourism is going to be something important in that country as soon as the security situation is resolved...

Rumsfeld

Nevertheless, when the decisions are about war and peace one would expect the governments of the most powerful and best equipped states to have mechanisms and procedures in place to ensure some quality control over the materials that experts prepare for them. One would expect that these governments themselves, at the very least, would examine the material with critical minds and common sense.

Blix

It was only a little later in the process that it occurred to me that the Iraqis would be in greater difficulty if, as they had been saying, there truly were no weapons of which they could “yield possession.”

Blix