"We don't have any problems with inspections of the facility.
And Iran is still refusing to fully cooperate with inspections by the atomic energy agency.
"Why?" "Because he's pretending to go along with inspections so he can get bombs".
"Why?" "Because we're pretending to go along with inspections so we can bomb".
Six months after Annan's trip, in August, the Iraqis announced that they would no longer coöperate with inspections.
But with inspections behind them, some Americans indulge in a new, closed-door suburban passion: toilet swapping.
The statement came only hours after France proposed giving Iraq roughly 30 days to comply with inspections.
With inspections just starting in the autumn of 2002 the military train should have moved very slowly.
Member states of the UN Security Council, however, differed in their opinion of the degree to which Iraq had cooperated with inspections.
American border-patrol agents are known to take their time with inspections, and strangers are easily noticed among the regulars making the trip back and forth.
