id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt pst.000043017171 United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Disarming Iraq : the status of weapons inspections : hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, September 15, 1998 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/9 1998 .txt text/plain 42919 3027 67 I would like to express our thanks and admiration for Mr. Ritter's courage and dedication in his role in disarming Iraq and leading the efforts to destroy their weapons of mass destruction. Last spring, we threatened to use force, as we have on three separate occasions since the end of the Gulf War, if Iraq did not permit UNSCOM inspections to resume. Iraq must comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions and cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors. A great deal of the problem I think a great many of my constituents have about our policies with regard to Iraq are ones of perception of America's resolve to prevent Saddam Hussein from reconstituting, as you say, its weapons of mass destruction capability. Chairman GilmAn. Major, a respected trade journal called Nucleonics Week has reported that IAEA was informed that Iraq had developed a scale model of a nuclear weapon. ./cache/pst.000043017171.pdf ./txt/pst.000043017171.txt