re: Extraordinary claims
If you are accusing somebody of a crime, and describing that accusation as "extraordinary," it makes one hell of a lot of difference if that person has actually committed that crime many times in the past.
That is precisely why there were sanctions against Iraq (and not against Switserland) as well as UN inspectors.
And lest we forget (yet again), the objective of the U.N. mandates against Saddam was not that the world had to prove he had the weapons, but that Saddam had to prove he didn't
That was a US DEMAND for Resolution 1443 and a French CONCESSION to have an unanimous vote at the UN. France would not have accepted it otherwise as it goes against all law principles.
Raoul