Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Cohen put it in November of 1998:

[Inspectors] have to find documents, computer discs, production points, ammunition areas in an area that size. Hussein has said, “We have no program now.” We’re saying, “Prove it.” He says he has destroyed all his nerve agent. [W]e’re asking “where, when and how?” . . . The onus for this is firmly on Saddam Hussein.

President Clinton stated that “it is incontestable that on the day I left office [in January 2001], there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons [in Iraq].” In fact, Saddam never met his obligation to account for them.