"Fly Guy" wrote in message ...

Any such requirement would have been rammed down their throat,
probably with no supporting adendums detailing what constitutes
acceptible verification.


Well, when you lose a war, you tend to get things rammed down your throat.



How about to give surrounding hostile countries the reason to think
that Iraq just might have some shread of defensive capability?


Iraq was permitted defensive capability, we are not talking about defensive
weapons.



Please explain why a shipment of 14 scud missles from North Korea was
allowed to be delivered to Yemen before the Iraq invasion started?


Because it was not something they were barred from posessing.



Yemen. You know, where the USS Cole was almost sunk? The country
filled with radicals and terrorists? Why did the US allow the
Yemenese to take possession of those WMD's? The ship was boarded by
"coalition" forces. It could have been taken out to sea and sunk.
Instead the US allowed REAL WMD's to fall into the hands of REAL
terrorists.


Scuds are a delivery vehicle, they are not WMD.