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BLIX CONCEDES IRAQIS MAY DECEIVE INSPECTORS AGAIN
Coffee cup alert!
Suggest that Han Blix might need to be aggressive on his mission to ferret out Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, as Steve Kroft did, and the Swedish diplomat cautions that aggression is not permitted under his U.N. charter. So how will he perform his inspections? “We’ll be correct and effective,” he tells Kroft in an interview to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES.
“Aggressive is an American quality."
Thank you.
"You are aggressive in business. That’s fine."
Last warning for coffee!
"Aggression is prohibited under U.N. charter,” Blix tells Kroft. “And as a European, I would rather use the word dynamic and effective.”
I warned you about the coffee. Dynamic and effective Europeans? Isn't that a oxymoron?
Blix, speaking in his first U.S. interview since the U.N. gave him sweeping new powers to inspect for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, concedes the new powers cannot make people tell the truth who were deceptive the last time inspectors entered Iraq. “[The Iraqis] certainly did not give accurate answers to the questions they should answer. It could happen again,”.
You don't say!
He can’t even guarantee if all of his 280 weapons inspectors from various countries will not undermine the effort by tipping off the Iraqis. “I can never have 100 percent guarantees that no one will not be someone who worked for a state [as an intelligence agent]
If I discover that
, then I’ll fire the person.”
Only if he happens to be working for U.S. Intelligence. A dynamic and effective European couldn't do anything like that.
Blix, however, says the imminent threat of war makes the situation different than the last time inspections were carried out in 1998. “[The Iraqis] have not been under quite the same stress and pressure as they are now,” he tells Kroft. “There is this difference: they know that the consequences might be very serious this time
You have a unanimous [U.N.] Security Council that demands Iraq to cooperate,” he says. “I think it’s a very somber moment and I hope that this is taken to heart by the Iraqis,” says Blix.
Please, Saddam, don't let me find anything. That might lead to aggression, aggression leads to anger, anger leads to the dark side!
Posted by: Steve 2002-11-15
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