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To: American Spirit who wrote (2025)	2/12/2004 1:30:28 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 173976

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To: American Spirit who wrote (2025)	2/12/2004 2:59:35 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

Blix Fears Iraq Weapons Reports Distortion Thursday February 12, 2004 6:16 PM By KARL RITTER Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Thursday he was sure President Bush's election campaign would twist his reports on Saddam Hussein's arsenal to justify the war in Iraq. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Blix said his reports on Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction to the U.N. Security Council had already been misinterpreted by pro-war governments, including neighboring Denmark. ``Many of these politicians have put exclamation marks where we put question marks,'' Blix said. ``We never said that there were (weapons of mass destruction). We said there could be.'' When asked whether members of the Bush campaign may try to alter the meaning of his reports to back the decision to invade Iraq, he said: ``I'm sure they will.'' He added he has not seen any signs that it has happened yet. The Bush administration has repeatedly denied allegations that it exaggerated information about Iraq's weapons development for political purposes or to gain support for the war. Blix has previously criticized both President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for overstating the weapons case. In a 173-page dossier on Saddam's weapons presented before the war, Blix said Iraq had failed to show it had destroyed all of its anthrax supplies and Scud missile warheads filled with deadly biological and chemical agents. Pro-war advocates, including British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, used the dossier to support their argument that Saddam posed a threat to the region and the world. But Blix doubted the dossier, presented March 6, 2003, influenced the decision to go to war two weeks later. ``This dossier cannot have affected American decision-makers because at that point the war was already on its way,'' he said. The U.S.-led coalition hasn't found any evidence of banned weapons since it launched the invasion. Both Blix and David Kay, a U.S. weapons hunter in Iraq, have since said they don't believe there were any banned weapons there when the war started. Blix retired from his job as chief U.N. inspector last summer and now heads a Stockholm-based commission on preventing the spread and buildup of weapons of mass destruction. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004 guardian.co.uk