Agreement Quote by Tom Harkin

The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range…

— Barton Gellman

Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region…

— Hillary Clinton

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its…

— Barbara Boxer

The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has…

— George W. Bush

The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological…

— Robert Byrd

The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away…

— Hans Blix

We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in…

— Harry Reid

“The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain time and advantage. It has uniformly defied Security Council resolutions demanding full disarmament.…

— George W. Bush

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

— Janeane Garofalo

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons...We have sources that tell us…

— George W. Bush

Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its…

— Hans Blix

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile…

— John Bolton