Hi Neocon; Still no quote from Blix saying that he "thought" that Iraq had WMDs? Glad to see that you're searching high and low for such a quote.
Re your sad misquote: "He says of the Iraqis: "They cheated, they retreated, they changed figures, they denied access, etc. Why was that if they didn't have anything really to conceal?...""
What a liar. your "..." leaves off the meat of Blix's quote: "I have speculations, one could be pride," he said." There you have it, you loser. Instead of finding Blix saying that he thought that the Iraqis had WMDs, you've found a quote from Blix giving an alternative explanation.
Jesus weeps! If this isn't the perfect example of winnowing the data to eliminate the stuff that disagrees with you.
Re: "Blix thought that Saddam was inherently dangerous ..." Your point?
Re: "... and speaks approvingly of his ouster."
This is not the same as saying that Blix was in favor of a war to oust Saddam. If Saddam had been struck by lightning, Blix (and most of the world) would have spoke approvingly of that, too. As usual, you take every bit of evidence in favor of what you want to believe and blithely ignore everything else. Here's what Blix said about the timing of the war (as opposed to Saddam's "ouster"), from the same source you're quoting: "Blix said his inspectors should have been given more time."
You failed to quote this zinger: "Nevertheless, he was critical of intelligence his teams received from the United States and other countries before the war began, saying the information was "not very good ... and that shook me a bit.""
Look. It's clear now that you've searched high and low and still haven't found a single quote from Blix where he expresses the opinion that Iraq was hiding WMDs.
I suspect that you truly believe that such a quote exists. You're so full of yourself, so sure of your logic, that you can't imagine how any thinking person could have an opinion different from yours. So you're sure that yes, you must have seen that Blix quote somewhere.
Go face reality. Blix never said that Iraq probably had WMDs.
For that matter, it turned out that Iraq didn't have any WMDs. They, along with the nonexistent Blix quote, was all in your defective head.
-- Carl |
