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To: h0db who wrote (130371)4/29/2004 1:32:47 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Respond to of 281500
 
And I think, again, Hans Blix, ..... were on to him.

Could have fooled me.. Especially from what Blix has been saying with his 20/20 hindsight..

freespeech.com

Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4, came away from a meeting with former chief weapons inspector Hans Blix convinced that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, even while the location of Iraq's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons remains a mystery.
"The bottom line is they could be anywhere," Shays said in a telephone interview from Geneva, Switzerland.

Shays met privately with Blix in Stockholm, Sweden, earlier this week, then went to Geneva for a biological weapons convention. He plans to go to Iraq next week with a congressional delegation led by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.


freerepublic.com

It is too early conclude that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction just because Baghdad has not used any, UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has said.

"It's a little early to draw the conclusion that there aren't any (such weapons)", Dr Blix told Swedish daily Aftonbladet.


edition.cnn.com

LONDON, England -- Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix says he would not be surprised if coalition forces found chemical or biological weapons in Iraq.

freerepublic.com

UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix says he was shaken by the poor quality of the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction provided by the United States and Britain.

veteransforpeace.org

Blix sceptical on Iraqi WMD claim
BBC Dec 16, 2003

Iraq probably destroyed its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the early 1990s, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has said.

Speaking to the BBC's World Service, Mr Blix said he was more certain than ever that there was no WMD in Iraq.


cnsnews.com\ForeignBureaus\archive\200309\FOR20030918c.html

Blix Claims US-UK Spin on Iraq WMD
By Mike Wendling
CNSNews.com London Bureau Chief
September 18, 2003

London (CNSNews.com) - Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said in an interview Thursday that the British and U.S. governments used exaggeration and "spin" in presenting evidence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.


Will the REAL Hans Blix, PLEASE stand up!!

And now.. let's look at the remainder of that comment by Zinni:

And what annoyed Saddam is they wouldn't give him a clean bill of health until they could talk to the scientists, until they could assure themselves that that framework didn't exist. And the threat was the framework. And the inspectors, including Hans Blix in my mind, would have never given him a clean bill of health for two reasons. He was in non-compliance, he wouldn't give them access to the scientists and others. And there wasn't full accountability of previous stocks.

Hello!! Even Zinni admits that Saddam was NOT in compliance, AS COMMANDED by the UNSC 17 different friggin' times.. Saddam had ONE LAST CHANCE to come clean.. And he had 90 days to do it, or face "severe consequences"..

And he failed to do so.. Seems pretty clear to me that he was in violation. And just as he was in violation of Kuwaiti soveriegnty after he invaded them, he was in violation of the cease fire agreement that PERMITTED him to remain in power under specific disarmament conditions.

Hawk