please read some history and understand it---NOT invasion--it was the PG1 continued after saddam VIOLATED the PG1 ceasefire!!!
Iraq violated the cease fire--they had every right and responsibility to go in there
Iraq posed no imminent threat to the US or its allies in 2003, hence the invasion was illegitimate.
"During the
Iraq disarmament crisis before the
2003 invasion of Iraq, Blix was called back from retirement by UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan to lead the
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in charge of monitoring Iraq..."
"Blix personally admonished Saddam for 'cat and mouse' games
[4] and warned Iraq of 'serious consequences' if it attempted to hinder or delay his mission.
[5]
"In his report to the
UN Security Council on 14 February 2003, Blix claimed that 'so far,
UNMOVIC has not found any such weapons [of mass destruction], only a small number of empty chemical munitions.'
[6]
"In 2004 Blix gave a statement that 'there were about 700 inspections, and in no case did we find weapons of mass destruction.'
[7]
"Blix's statements about the
Iraq WMD program came to contradict the claims of the
George W. Bush administration,
[8] and attracted a great deal of criticism from supporters of the invasion of Iraq. In an interview on
BBC 1 on 8 February 2004, Blix accused the US and British governments of dramatizing the threat of
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, in order to strengthen the case for the
2003 war against the government of
Saddam Hussein. Ultimately, no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
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Hans Blix - Wikipedia