We will not tolerate any more of this, Mr. Butler. Iraq is not a defeated country, UNSCOM is not an army of occupation and you are not General MacArthur.
Thus spoke Tariq Aziz, deputy prime minister of Iraq to Richard Butler, executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the unique entity established by the Security Council at the conclusion of the Gulf War in 1991. This bizarre declaration was but one of a series of events so frighteningly Orwellian as to almost defy belief.
