Posted on 10/13/2004 12:03:55 PM PDT by quidnunc
Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believed the Government’s controversial Iraq weapons dossier actually understated the case against Saddam Hussein, according to documents released today by the Foreign Office.
The papers released by the FO show that British officials at the United Nations in New York showed a draft of the dossier to Dr Blix in September 2002, two weeks before the final version was published.
A note from one official, Adam Bye, said that Dr Blix had liked the section on chemical, biological and nuclear weapons as he believed that it did not exaggerate the facts.
According to the note, Dr Blix said that the dossier even risked understating Iraq’s ability to produce weapons of mass destruction — particularly the lethal anthrax virus.
He also described the claim that even if Iraq was able to acquire fissile material from abroad, it would still take at least two years to build a working nuclear bomb as “modest”.
Since war, Dr Blix has strongly criticised the case made for war by Britain and the United States, based on Saddam Hussein’s supposed possession of illegal WMD.
However, in a Commons statement, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that at the time the dossier was published, the assumption that Iraq did indeed have WMD was shared across the international community.
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Look at Scott Riter and Richard Butler.
Ach da ist der Nixy Blix!
Perhaps Blixy got a retirement donation courtesy of the U.N. oil-for-food program?
Blix is selling a book. Bashing Bush sells books. Hypocrisy be damned.
Methinks Blix should pay a visit to Kim Jong.
Blix couldn't find his own posterior with both hands and a flashlight.
I get so angered each time I've hear Democrats say on TV:
"Bush lied to the American People about Iraq's WMD!"
Yet, I've NEVER heard the one plausible response by
George Bush: "On the first day I entered the Oval Office in 2001, Mr.Clinton told me that he and Tony Blair had been advised by their respective Intelligentsia that Saddam Hussein had a stockpile of WMD. They had been dealing with the UN for years before my time; why should I question the validity of the situation?"
Every American school kid KNOWS that an incoming President is told all the highly classified info by the outgoing Administration! But then again, GWB isn't a whiner or
seeker of scapegoats!
Ol' Hans knows how to keep a job going, doesn't he?
UN SCUM.
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