Richard Butler Iraq Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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