Director of the non-proliferation project at the Carnegie Endowment Joseph Cirincione wrote, on July 9, 2003: ” ‘In the light of the past three months of fruitless searches by U.S., British, and Australian experts, the UNMOVIC [UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] inspection process in Iraq now looks much better than critics at the time claimed. It appears that the inspection process was working, and if it had been given enough time and enough resources, could have continued to work and effectively stymied and prevented any new Iraqi efforts on weapons of mass destruction.’ “
– Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 272