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Originally Posted by pgardn
DTS they are only printing the parts of the story that sound good. Go look at all the other articles in which Blix complains profusely about the Iraqi's complete lack of cooperations and how they let them into sites they wanted them to see.
Common dreams is cutting a pasting. Thats just not an accurate portrayal of the situation. I followed this very closely because I did not want us to get into war and was hoping beyond hope that the UN would be allowed into all the sites they wanted on their time scale, because they clearly said thing had been moved and hidden by the Iraqis BEFORE they were allowed in. What they were hiding I have no idea now. But this article is reprehensible in what it has left out. Blix and other UN officials were constantly deceived and lied to and nothing in that article says anything about how bad this problem was.
That article is really not fair, not at all.
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Pgardn,
Alas, there are no "do overs". Blix and his team had inspected 500 of 700 suspected sites (if you read the article). Saddam was in a "box" and bluffing.
Blix wanted more time to carry on the inspections. This is fact.
That there were nuclear weapons, yellow cake or centerfuges clearly has proven to not be. Remember who put those "stories" out?
So who was decieved? Who rushed to invade?
Blix's own words point to a truth that can not be denied.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/25/news/invade.php