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Interview with Hans Blix

Mar 16, 2004 10:25AM PST

Blix has written a book about being a weapons inspector, so naturally he wants to be interviewed. NPR obliged. Blix: Lack of 'Critical Judgment' Led to Iraq War

I found the interview interesting. I'm not sure I heard the entire thing. I was just waking up when it came over the radio, but it did not sound like Blix questioned Bush's belief that there were weapons. He did question whether there was enough reliable data to support that belief, but he also noted that the US and UK intelligence services were not the only people who had reached the wrong conclusions.

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Shhhh...
Mar 16, 2004 12:11PM PST
...but he also noted that the US and UK intelligence services were not the only people who had reached the wrong conclusions.


Kerry doesn't want anyone to remember that, everyone's supposed to believe that it's all because Bush lied....

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Thank you for again pointing out it wasn't just Bush's conclusion
Mar 16, 2004 1:52PM PST

right or wrong that there were weapons dangerous enough to demand attention. Hopefully many more than seem to realize that the decision was made on belief at the time, not on the hindsight we have now.

Anyone that wants to argue he was too willing to believe the worst is fine, but I sincerely wish that some would drop the "it was all lies and conspiracy to dupe the world into war" mantras.

RogerNC

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I didn't see/hear that one,
Mar 16, 2004 9:11PM PST

But I did see David Kay on MSNBC yesterday.

He said in essence that all beleived that the stockpiles were there. They found the capacity and the know-how to have produced them. And that Iraq was even more dangerous to world stability than we imagined.

That the deterioriation of order (other than that imposed by Sadam) had made it only a matter of time before a buyer of the stuff would find a supplier in Iraq.

His main message was that this administration should put these facts out for the public so we could also see that even though in hindsight, the war was 'unjustified', it was a thing that needed doing so we did it.

i.e. he feels that the war was necessary.

Bo

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He also said
Mar 16, 2004 10:27PM PST

He also said that he pointed out several times to US, UK, and UN officials that the intelligence reports were not panning out. They followed all the leads they were given with zero results. He told those officials that he had concerns about the accuracy of their intel.

Certainly enough reason for all those involved to take a step back and reconsider what was the next step.

Dan