Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The French Were Right : "In two speeches, on February 14 and March 7, 2003, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin elaborated the French position before the United Nations Security Council. He asserted that UN inspections were successfully uncovering the truth on the ground in Iraq and containing the Iraqi threat. Whatever one may think about French motives, it is now clear that, on the merits, France was largely right about the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and how to address it prior to the war."