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| Blix Says Iraq Probably Destroyed WMDs |
| 2003-09-17 |
| SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, but kept up the appearance that it had them to deter a military attack. The strategy worked, all except for that last part. In an interview with an Australian radio station broadcast Wednesday, Blix said it was unlikely that the U.S and British teams now searching for weapons in Iraq would find more than some "documents of interest." "I’m certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, as they maintained, destroyed all, almost, of what they had in the summer of 1991," Blix told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Not that you ever figured that out while you were inspecting the place. Wotta sooper-genius. "The more time that has passed, the more I think it’s unlikely that anything will be found." Blix indicated he thought the U.S.-led coalition had backtracked on the issue of Iraq’s weapons. "In the beginning they talked about weapons concretely, and later on they talked about weapons programs. Maybe they’ll find some documents of interest," he said. Among those documents will be the ones that detail how the Iraqis penetrated the inspections program. That will make interesting reading. Blix, who spent three years searching for Iraqi chemical, biological and ballistic missiles as head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, said Iraq might have tried to fool the United States into believing it had weapons of mass destruction over the years in order to deter attack. "I mean, you can put up a sign on your door, ’Beware of the Dog,’ without having a dog," he said from his home in Sweden. That Saddam, he sure fooled us. Too bad he didn’t think a little more about this, or he would have realized that the US doesn’t cotton to blackmail too well. The United States and its allies Britain and Australia invaded Iraq in May after saying Saddam Hussein’s regime was developing nuclear arms as well as chemical and biological weapons. However, a search by the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group - which is made up of some 1,400 scientists, military and intelligence experts - has failed to uncover any weapons of mass destruction since the conflict ended. Oh well! |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Isn't the US is destroying chemical weapons in an Alabama incinerator as we speak? Wouldn't have been very hard to burn chemicals and biologicals in the big fire pit Sadaam had going outside Baghdad. Don't no why they dumped some of the drums into the Eufrates. That's not very safe. I would have thought that Sadaam's minions would have been to paranooid to destroy anything without a signature. Most wouldn't have wanted to be trerated like an Olympic soccer player. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-17 5:53:48 PM |
| #5 Can you destroy WMD without leaving a trace of the destruction? Beware of the Dog, without having a dog might be a good strategy to keep a burglar away. How effective is it when hundred men with machine guns are knocking at the door? Shouldn't Saddam get the Nobel Prize. I mean, he's so noble to destroy his weapons without even telling us. I think this modesty should get some reward, no? I recommend Blix handing over the Nobel Prize to Saddam in Arafat's residence in Ramallah. Just ignore the little GPS device attached to it. It really doesn't mean anything... |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-17 4:50:31 PM |
| #4 Would've been nice if he mentioned this, oh, ten years ago. But don't kill the job, right Blixie? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-17 4:39:19 PM |
| #3 Will Blix agree to shutup if the make him a Nobel Laureate? It would be a small price. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-17 12:40:31 PM |
| #2 And the beauzeaux won't ever believe Blix because they like to think Bush tricked us. Assholes. |
| Posted by: Katz 2003-9-17 12:28:12 PM |
| #1 "Too bad he didn’t think a little more about this, or he would have realized that the US doesn’t cotton to blackmail too well" Well, at least this President doesn't. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-17 12:24:43 PM |