[Dolphy]

Personally I am completely confused by who saw what when. But to me the point is that we and the Brits have put a lot of information out there based on our intelligence. Blix and his sidekick have consistently looked to refute our claims, and call our intelligence bad or made up. This provides material for the Chris Matthews of the world to argue to dispute the basis of our cause for war even though the Security Council on the whole has no such dispute about Saddam's weapons.

As the President said, there was a single question to be answered by Blix on Friday. Instead he contributed to confusion, and discredited us.

[wendellscout]

And I thought I was the only confused one! It's comforting to see some similar thinking....

[laz17]

Blix and his sidekick have consistently looked to refute our claims, and call our intelligence bad or made up.

Exactly. Our intelligence discovers certain things that Saddam has, then Blix says our intelligence is either faulty or we are lying. Then, on top of that, he hides the proof that our intelligence is correct and that we are telling the truth.

We knew about Saddam's drones. Powell spoke of them on 2/5. But Blix discounted Powell's assertions. One can assume, if you want to give Blix the benefit of the doubt, that he hadn't discovered any drones and doubted they existed. But now, a month later, it turns out that Blix damn well knew about the drones and that he swept the knowledge of them under the rug!

It's one thing to be called a liar by someone who refuses to believe you. It's far worse to be called a liar by someone who KNOWS you're telling the truth, and who then lies to others and turns them against you. Blix must have learned this tactic from Klintoon.