investigation, Meekin said, suggests Iraqi efforts to obtain dangerous technology since 1991 met with modest success at best.

"Our judgment is that sanctions have been pretty good, or the sanctions effort, to prevent the import of components," he said. "I guess there’s more fertile ground in North Korea or Iran."


in other words, if iraq was unable to make a nuclear bomb after 1991, it was due to american sanctions preventing them from doing soa succcess -doh, so now lets invade north korea and japan.