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TORONTO - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton said Thursday he would have taken the word of UN weapons inspector Hans Blix over his own intelligence agencies if Blix had found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "Yeah, I would have. It's not a question of believing him over the intelligence agencies but the intelligence was ambiguous on the point really," Clinton said in an interview with CBC's The National. "I certainly would have believed it enough to put [the war] off and try to build more support," he said, referring to getting more support from the...

CLINTON IN BERLIN "It was a mistake for us to attack Iraq" Berlin was in Clinton fever over the weekend. The former U.S. president Bill Clinton stayed in the capital to deliver his autobiography to readers. On the TV show "Sabine Christiansen", he also sharply criticized the government of his successor, George W. Bush. DDP Welcome Guest in Berlin: Ex-President Clinton Berlin - It was a mistake for us to attack Iraq before (UN head weapons inspector) Hans Blix had finished his work", Clinton said on the ARD program last night. There hadn't been any definite proof that the regime...

Thank God for Hans Blix. Whenever we become lax and forgetful about how the world changed on Sept. 11, former chief inspector Blix is there to make the case for mindless complacency. In a recent speech in Vienna he warned that one should be wary of the claim that "the risk that reckless groups and governments might acquire weapons of mass destruction is the greatest problem facing our world today." Why? Because "to hundreds of millions of people around the world, the big existential issue is hunger, and also that wherever you live on this planet, the risk of global...

WASHINGTON -- Thank God for Hans Blix. Whenever we become lax and forgetful about how the world changed on 9/11, former chief inspector Blix is there to make the case for mindless complacency. In a recent speech in Vienna he warned that one should be wary of the claim that ``the risk that reckless groups and governments might acquire weapons of mass destruction is the greatest problem facing our world today.'' Why? Because ``to hundreds of millions of people around the world, the big existential issue is hunger, and also that wherever you live on this planet, the risk of...

Great job as usual Sabertooth...quick effective and to the point..How did all those officials miss the newly found WMDS?

Several readers responded to our Wednesday item on the Saddam torture video by asking where to find it. The American Enterprise Institute has links on this page. AEI warns that the video is "very graphic" and "not suitable for children." We've seen part of it, and we're not sure it's suitable for anyone, so proceed at your own risk.

Hans Blix has never made a secret of his opposition to the war in Iraq, but recently the former chief U.N. weapons inspector and Swedish diplomat has dropped all pretense of, well, diplomacy. His frequent public statements are confirming that the Bush Administration was right to suspect that he was so opposed to the war that he'd have given Saddam Hussein the benefit of every doubt and more in order to prevent it. Mr. Blix told a Danish newspaper last month that Iraqis have suffered more from the war than they did under the reign of Saddam Hussein. In a...

9:47am (UK) Sarin Shell 'Probably A Stray' - Blix Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said today that a shell containing sarin nerve gas used in an attack in Iraq was probably a stray weapon that could have been dated from the first Gulf War. Blix said the discovery of the nerve agent was not a sign that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction before the war last year. The US-led coalition used that claim to justify the invasion even though UN inspectors failed to make any significant finds before the war. The former Swedish foreign minister...

The discovery of an Iraqi artillery shell armed with nerve gas has the liberal community and mass media in a panic. The 155mm nerve gas shell was rigged to kill U.S. troops but it failed. U.S. Brig. General Mark Kimmitt confirmed the discovery during a news conference in Baghdad. Yet, the discovery of nerve gas was followed by a second revelation. A second shell, equipped with mustard gas was found two weeks ago. The mustard gas shell identified by the special WMD inspection team in Iraq appears to be one of 550 declared by Saddam to U.N. inspectors during the...

FORMER chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said that a shell containing sarin nerve gas used in an attack in Iraq was most likely a stray weapon possibly from the first Gulf War. Blix said today that the discovery of the nerve agent was not a sign that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction before the war last year. The US-led coalition used that claim to justify the invasion even though UN inspectors failed to make any significant finds before the war. The former Swedish foreign minister said the 155-mm shell used to attack a US military...

Blix wants more information about sarin-filled roadside bomb Stockholm, Sweden-AP -- He wants to know more. Former U-N weapons inspector Hans Blix is taking a wait-and-see approach, after news that a roadside bomb containing sarin exploded in Iraq. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt says the explosion occurred a couple of days ago. And he said he believes the insurgents who set the bomb didn't know it contained sarin.But Blix says it's too soon to determine if the shell was from the past or part of a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.Blix reported before the beginning of the war in Iraq...

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Go here and click on the show archive for Monday May 10. listen to first 20 minutes. Its truly amazing. Excerpt from interview on Fox News "Blix is a bloated bureaucrat whose arrogance was only exceeded by his incompetence. The spread of nuclear weapons took place right under his nose." - John Loftus

Two of Blix's subordinates found to be on Saddam's payroll. Iraqi nuclear scientists sent to Libya prior to the war. Objective to create an Arab nuclear weapon.

Hans Blix tells crowd at UT the use of pre-emptive force sets a dangerous precedent By Nicolas Brulliard AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, April 29, 2004 Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix sharply criticized the intelligence presented by the United States in the buildup to the war in Iraq and warned against the use of pre-emptive force in a Wednesday night speech at the University of Texas. "A pre-emptive strike must necessarily rest on intelligence that indicates the danger to be occurring, the attack to be countered," Blix said. "And it is not hard to see that the intelligence that underpinned...

Eagle photo/Butch Ireland Former United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix talks about the balance sheet of positive and negatives from the Iraq war. In some ways, the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq were similar to “the witch-hunts of past centuries,” former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix told a crowd at Texas A&M University on Friday night. For those who believe in witches or weapons of mass destruction, he said, “the evidence does not have to be all that strong. You will take it.” “ It seems to me that the U.S. and U.K. leadership...

<p>Members of the Richmond Conservative Forum met in front of the Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. yesterday evening to protest the taxpayer funded appearance of Hans Blix and to support President George W. Bush, our Troops and the Mission they have been deployed to accomplish. FReepers in attendance were Alpheus, GottaLuvAkitas1, tva, GeorgeW23225, helmut113 and Flora McDonald.</p>

<p>Intelligence on UN Inspectors Fed Bush War Decision (Update2) April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Intelligence reports indicating former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was moving and concealing things and that lead United Nations inspector Hans Blix wasn't doing all he was supposed to helped President George W. Bush decide to go to war in January 2003, a new book says.</p>

King Abdullah: Al-Qaida WMDs Came From Syria Jordan's King Abdullah revealed on Saturday that vehicles reportedly containing chemical weapons and poison gas that were part of a deadly al-Qaida bomb plot came from Syria, the country named by U.S. weapons inspector David Kay last year as a likely repository for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "It was a major, major operation. It would have decapitated the government," King Abdullah told the San Francisco Chronicle. Jordanian officials estimated that the death count could have been as high as 20,000 - seven times greater than the Sept. 11 attacks. King Abdullah said...

President G. W. Bush’s decision to forcibly remove Saddam Hussein without UN approval has been characterized by many – especially in Europe – as an “assault on international institutions” wherein America is apparently far more dangerous than the Ba’athist dictatorship ever was. Thus we are witnessing a “robust rebirth of American unilateralism” that is a significant reversal of the “internationalist commitment” that every president embraced since the end of WWII. The source of such charges merit exploration. Specifically, what is the Bush administration’s rationale for making the foreign policy choices that have engendered these charges of unilateralism? Are there any...