Unfortunately, in the case of Iraq, I believe we could have done that through an inspection process. I was calling for a few months more to complete our work. We hadn’t seen indications of weapons of mass destruction. We hadn’t seen indications of nuclear weapons. ... Unfortunately, it didn’t work that way. There was faulty intelligence. There were lots of other considerations that made a decision to go to war tempting, to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
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Mohamed ElBaradei
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997-2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2005
Egypt · b. 1942
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Egyptian lawyer and diplomat who led the International Atomic Energy Agency for twelve years, and who with the Agency was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for work to prevent nuclear energy being used for military purposes. Later briefly Vice President of Egypt.
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