Hans Blix on Iraq

[there4eyeM]

Why invading Iraq was a terrible mistake - CNN.com

What more can be said?

 

[Billo_Really]

Why invading Iraq was a terrible mistake - CNN.com

What more can be said?

Hans Blix is proof George Bush is a war criminal.

There was absolutely no reason to rush into war with Iraq.

The UN inspectors should have been allowed to "stay the coarse" and "finish their mission".

 

[Publius1787]

Why invading Iraq was a terrible mistake - CNN.com

What more can be said?

"I have mentioned the issue of anthrax to the Council on previous occasions and I come back to it as it is an important one.

Iraq has declared that it produced about 8,500 litres of this biological warfare agent, which it states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991. Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction.

There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared, and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date. It might still exist. Either it should be found and be destroyed under UNMOVIC supervision or else convincing evidence should be produced to show that it was, indeed, destroyed in 1991."

Dr. Hans Blix, Chief UN Weapons Inspector
Addressing the UN Security Council
January 27, 2003

"The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. ...we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes."

Dr. Hans Blix, Chief UN Weapons Inspector
Addressing the UN Security Council
January 27, 2003

"The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed.

13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and 1988, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tonnes."

Dr. Hans Blix, Chief UN Weapons Inspector
Addressing the UN Security Council
January 27, 2003

"Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance -- not even today -- of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."

Dr. Hans Blix, Chief UN Weapons Inspector
Addressing the UN Security Council
January 27, 2003

 

[rightwinger]

Blix begged Bush to hold off the attack. Bush played every fear card he had to make Iraq look like an imminent threat. Then he attacked before Blix could prove there were no WMDs

 

[Publius1787]

Blix begged Bush to hold off the attack. Bush played every fear card he had to make Iraq look like an imminent threat. Then he attacked before Blix could prove there were no WMDs

Considering that the weapons inspectors were already kicked out and Saddam refused to let them back in (Else there would have been no war), it would had been awfully hard for Blix to prove.

 

[rightwinger]

Iraq and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During the lead-up to war in March 2003, United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix had found no stockpiles of WMD and had made significant progress toward resolving open issues of disarmament noting "proactive" but not always the "immediate" Iraqi cooperation as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1441. He concluded that it would take “but months” to resolve the key remaining disarmament tasks.[4] The United States asserted this was a breach of Resolution 1441 but failed to convince the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution authorizing the use of force due to lack of evidence.[5][6][7] Despite being unable to get a new resolution authorizing force and citing section 3 of the Joint Resolution passed by the U.S. Congress,[8] President George W. Bush asserted peaceful measures could not disarm Iraq of the weapons he alleged it to have and launched a second Gulf War,[9] despite multiple dissenting opinions[10] and questions of integrity[11][12][13] about the underlying intelligence.[14] Later U.S.-led inspections agreed that Iraq had earlier abandoned its WMD programs, but asserted Iraq had an intention to pursue those programs if UN sanctions were ever lifted.[15] Bush later said that the biggest regret of his presidency was "the intelligence failure" in Iraq,[16] while the Senate Intelligence Committee found in 2008 that his administration "misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq".[17] A key CIA informant in Iraq admitted that he lied about his allegations, "then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war".[18]

 

[JakeStarkey]

Doesn't matter. There was no need for invasion. Time and the facts have made that incontestable.

 

[whitehall]

"The elimination of the tyrant (Saddam Hussein) was the only positive result of the war"?...Hans Blix. You might say that the elimination of the tyrant Adolph Hitler was the only positive result of WW2 when an estimated 20 MILLION people were killed. What is the sudden interest about the Iraq war? Maybe the liberal media understands that the O-blam-a is in serious trouble with half a dozen scandals involving gun running and murder.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Whitehall, take a logic course, please. That is one of the stupidest comments ever posted in USMB's history.

 

[there4eyeM]

An invasion was not necessary at that time. It is obvious the decision was political, not military.