Well, as long as we are at it---suuuure! Come on in Scott! We might as well bring on Crusty the Clown too. Sheesh!
"Go ahead--take your mugshot! I know Johnny Cochran!"
Posted on 04/17/2003 7:44:32 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Blix Wants Inspectors in Iraq
By TONY CZUCZKA, Associated Press Writer
BERLIN - The chief U.N. weapons inspector for Iraq (news - web sites) urged the U.S.-led coalition to allow his team back into the country to look for weapons of mass destruction, saying that would increase the credibility of any discoveries, a magazine reported Thursday.
Hans Blix, who was in charge of searches for chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles in Iraq, also challenged President Bush (news - web sites)'s administration to present proof of its allegation that Syria has chemical weapons.
"Whoever claims this should, in the interests of credibility, very quickly present the relevant proof," Blix said in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel. "For my part, I doubt that the Syrians would have been enthusiastic to serve as a depot of weapons of mass destruction for Baghdad."
Weapons inspectors left Iraq days before war in Iraq began. In explaining their decision to invade, the United States and Britain charged that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime had weapons of mass destruction.
"Now we will see whether London and Washington were right," Blix told Der Spiegel. "I am very curious and can only wish them luck in their search."
The Bush administration, which blamed Blix for hampering its drive to win international support for war, has not invited U.N. inspectors to take part in disarming postwar Iraq. Instead, the United States has tried to hire away some inspectors and has deployed its own teams to search for weapons of mass destruction.
Blix said internationally backed inspections would have "considerably more credibility."
"The alliance came as liberator and occupier, and that can prove to be a disadvantage," he told the magazine. "If its experts now should really discover weapons of mass destruction, their authenticity might be called into question."
Reports on Iraqi weapons programs that the inspectors received from intelligence agencies were "pretty pathetic" and led to no discoveries of weapons of mass destruction, Blix said.
The chief nuclear weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, even received forged documents meant to persuade the inspectors that Iraq had nuclear weapons ambitions, Blix said. He gave no details.
Blix, who has been invited to brief the U.N. Security Council on April 22, called for efforts to declare the entire Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, "naturally including Israel."
Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, though it has not officially acknowledged having them.
Sorry that is just to funny.
To me, that sounds very much like he knows something more about the location of those "non-existant" WMDs. He needs to be intenstly questioned.
Announcer: "Blix steps to the mound, winds up, and delivers the long slow curve for the French-German-Russian team...meanwhile back at the U.N.the search for a relief pitcher continues as Bush and his team continue to hit the ball out of the park."
Blix has shown he could not find his own backside with both hands in broad daylight even with the assistance of an inspection team.
The sole motivation for this ploy is arrogance. Plain and simple.
And the USA is going to be blamed and criticized for everything under the sun anyway, primarily by those who hate us mostly out of jealousy. So exactly who cares about those people?
Not this guy.
Hi...SkyPilot
WE already have the Real Inspectors in Iraq...
Thousands Of UNITED STATES MARINES and US SPECIAL OPS!!!
Hans Blix (The Nazi in a business suit) and Coffi Anan (I have totally forgotten that I come from a sub Third World Country) should be brought before an International Court and Tried for Lying to the World and Helping Saddam to pursue his Life Style Of Crimes against Humanity...his own people.
Like Scott Ritter?
Geez. Did you know that "Blix" means "Lightning" in Swedish? Wonder where it hit ;).
Standard 'Rat media practice.
Don't you find it interesting that this AP article is just so absolutely inflammatory?
Completely without challenge, Blix is allowed to spew his Socialist lies and innuendo. Like Iraqi propaganda, this reads more like a manifesto, or a marketing release, than news. Not a word about Blix's own credibility problems, the CNN cover-up of human rights atrocities, the greeting of free Iraqis, the undetected weapons caches, mobile labs, possible WMD sites.
Contrast this with articles that challenge Blix, the United Nations, the French, etc. Charges and accusations against the United Nations and Blix simply are not allowed to be stand-alone articles.
More proof that socialist media conspires to push the collectivist agenda.
Throughout the Clinton era, no criticism of Clinton appeared in print without including ample counterattacks by Carville, or the designated White House spokesliar of the day, or Hillary, etc.
In fact, it was more likely that any article would headline the counterattack (Clinton rejects GOP lies) than the original accusation (Clinton caught with pants down).
A reader would assume they missed the original article on the subject - but, of course, none existed.
The lesson?
Well, as long as we are at it---suuuure! Come on in Scott! We might as well bring on Crusty the Clown too. Sheesh!
"Go ahead--take your mugshot! I know Johnny Cochran!"
I want a pony!
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