UNSCOM/UNMOVIC were looking around Iraq after March 1991. So Saddam says - here, put this in your house. All along, Saddam was waiting for the UN to go away.

So yes, as you say, the stupid little vial was there for more than a decade, because the UN and the sanctions did not go away during that time.

Saddam never abandoned the programs.

Iraq was in violation of the terms of the 1991 cease fire agreement.

Therefore, the cease-fire is not valid.

This might be my last post on this topic. I'm sick of it. If we find a mass grave of Iraqi prisoners who all died of smallpox, Don will say:"Look what the sanctions did to the public health infrastructure of Iraq!"