Jeremy wrote:
] What we demanded of Iraq was that they account for all
] of this and they prove the negative of our hypothesis."
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] Did he just say that? Prove the negative?

Isn't that pretty much what we were asking though? There were reams of pages of documents showing that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons from previous years -- this was a fact, verified by both weapon inspectors and Iraq itself. Then, despite multiple requests and U.N. resolutions to find out what happened to those stockpiles, Iraq simply denied their existence, rearranged documents to remove evidence of their existence, and systematically blocked inspectors who were trying to verify what had happened to those stockpiles.

Perhaps Powell's sentence could be better worded, but yes, that's what we were asking Iraq to do, is prove that the weapons no longer existed. Prove their absence.

RE: Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons