Okay, if you care you've seen this.

But just in case you haven't:

SECRETARY [of State, Colin] POWELL: . . . . We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister [of Egypy] and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions--the fact that the sanctions exist--not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. . . . And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. . . .

--February 24, 2001

This remark, incidentally, has been widely circulated over the last few days since they were discovered, either by Kevin "Calpundit" Drum or by someone he didn't identify. However, the source is often missing, and is unimpeachable: The US Department of State web site.