“According to a [February] 2000 CIA report, ‘Since the suspension of U.N. inspections in December of 1998, Baghdad [Iraq] has had the capability to reinitiate both its CW [chemical weapons] and BW [biological weapons] programs within a few weeks to months. After Desert Fox [the December 1998 U.S. strike], Baghdad again instituted a reconstruction effort on those facilities destroyed by the US bombing, including several critical missile production complexes and former dual-use CW production facilities.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Pages 32-33