9/24/2002

“[I]n his preface to a report of September [24] 2002, [U.K.] Prime Minister [Tony] Blair advocated [weapons] inspection first [before invasion, in Iraq]. He wrote that ‘the inspectors must be allowed back in and to do their job properly; and that if he [Saddam] refuses, or if he makes it impossible for them to do their job as he has done in the past, the international community will have to act.’ “

 – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 72