maybe you can point out which of his statements you want to count as his last one:

"""The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed."""
"""Indeed, even one of the documents provided by Iraq indicates that the purity of the agent, at least in laboratory production, was higher than declared."""


"""Iraq appears not to have come to genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it."""

"""While we now have the technical capability to send a U-2 plane placed at our disposal for aerial imagery and for surveillance during inspections and have informed Iraq that we planned to do so, Iraq has refused to guarantee its safety, unless a number of conditions are fulfilled. As these conditions went beyond what is stipulated in resolution 1441 and what was practiced by UNSCOM and Iraq in the past, we note that Iraq is not so far complying with our request."""
"""Iraq has declared that it only produced VX on a pilot scale, just a few tons and that the quality was poor and the product unstable. Consequently, it was said, that the agent was never weaponized. Iraq said that the small quantity of agent remaining after the Gulf War was unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991.

UNMOVIC, however, has information that conflicts with this account. There are indications that Iraq had worked on the problem of purity and stabilization and that more had been achieved than has been declared. Indeed, even one of the documents provided by Iraq indicates that the purity of the agent, at least in laboratory production, was higher than declared."""

"""The document indicates that 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 tons. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we must assume that these quantities are now unaccounted for.""""

"""The discovery of a number of 122 mm chemical rocket warheads in a bunker at a storage depot 170 kilometers southwest of Baghdad was much publicized. This was a relatively new bunker and therefore the rockets must have been moved there in the past few years, at a time when Iraq should not have had such munitions."""

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I'm sure being a leftist US hater, you'll discount all of these facts from Blix because it doesn't work into your story of big bad US
:1orglaugh

Double whammy WORD :)

Date of this statment.... so I don't loose my time

I'm sure you have a point here.

Yes we know nothing. how's it feel to be ruled by the confused. :1orglaugh

they consider idiots are race in quebec? who knew? :1orglaugh


No, the difference is mostly based on your irrelevance and your hatered of your betters.:1orglaugh

I beg to differ dear fellow.

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HAD being past tense. Let's see what Kay says. That is even good enough for O'Reilly.

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foxnews! ahahahahahahaha

is that where you conservatives get your *facts* that explains everything.

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I never said terrorism did begin or end with 9/11

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Actually US Ambassador April Glaspie was the one who told him that. Not his sons nor myself. :Graucho

No, moron. you'll learn more without the cliff notes.
don't they teach that in those french canadian schools?

of course you do.

No, we already know what Blix says. you know, the liberal darling you love to quote when he bashes america.
Are you saying everything fox reports is false or just the stuff you don't like?

no, you just use it as an argument to have the US sit on its hands and do nothing to protect itself.
Are you sure you're not french?

really?
saddam asked her if it was ok to attack kuwait and she said yes?
got a link? :Graucho

Who?


What?


Where?


Why?

don't see the word " idiots" in your original post, just french canadians....

Read your own post.

End.

And now, :321GFY

One last warning from the man who made an enemy of Bush

UN weapons inspector says Iraqi guilt is still not proven

Helena Smith in New York
Wednesday June 11, 2003
The Guardian

It is, even by the standards of understatement for which Hans Blix is now renowned, "something special". It stands where he can see it best - opposite his desk on the 31st floor of the United Nations: a cartoon depicting the balding Swede as a stick of dynamite with President George Bush demonically waving a match over his head.
Given that the drawing also shows Mr Blix delivering one of his equally combustible reports to the UN security council in the run-up to the US-led war against Iraq, the joke is hard to miss. "Have you seen this?" he asks, trying not to chuckle. "It was given to me by my friends in British intelligence. I think it's great."

That the droll chief weapons inspector should draw attention to the cartoon says more about his mood, 20 days before he leaves the post, than anything else. The almost other-worldly New York view that he has feasted on since being pulled out of retirement for the thankless task of heading the United Nations monitoring, verification and inspection commission (Unmovic) is "nice, yes". But, like his fastidiously neat office, he says: "I won't be missing it."

The job has not been that stressful, he says. "It's just that it occupies you entirely. You don't do much else. There's been an advantage to having an old gentleman, like me, with no family around to do it."

It will be with a sense of relief that the genial Mr Blix, 75 this month, returns to the Stockholm apartment he shares with his wife Eva, a former ambassador. "I like New York," he says. "My apartment also has a spectacular view over Manhattan and that has been a blessing. But I also like oriental antique rugs, the theatre, and Eva and I both love cooking."

He sighs wistfully. "My work at the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency, which he headed for 16 years] was absorbing, but it's not the only thing in the world, is it?"

Mr Blix never sought fame. When it came, in the form of a telephone plea from Kofi Annan three years ago, the lifelong civil servant accepted out of a sense of duty. "We were in Patagonia holidaying at the time and I was waiting in line for a bus to take us to the airport when a travel agent came asking for a Mr Blix. She said a Mr Kofi had phoned."

Mr Blix certainly didn't need to accept the job for financial gain. Instead, he agreed to take it for a limited period because there was no one else who was acceptable to Iraq and the west. But with the post came state-sanctioned sniping from both camps. Before he had set foot in Baghdad, Mr Blix was being accused of ineptitude and inefficacy by detractors in Washington who loathed him for being a Clinton appointee.

There were "enemies" dating from his days as a liberal student leader at Uppsala University; enemies in the form of disgruntled ex-employees closely connected to hawks in the US Pentagon; Iraqi enemies who spread rumours about his being "homosexual, and going to Washington to pick up my instructions every two weeks".

There were even media jibes about his talent for inspection lying exclusively with menus at fancy East Side restaurants. But the accusations of "softness", levelled more often than not by senior American officials, were most galling.

"They would say I was too compliant with the Iraqis when in reality [they meant] I was not compliant enough with what the US wanted. I have never criticised the US or UK for lack of sincerity." Mr Blix tried to focus on the reports for his bosses at the UN security council, pointing out that they were always "happy" with him. Even now, he refuses to be explicitly drawn on just what he feels, insisting he is not "frustrated, bitter or betrayed".

But, despite his apparent equanimity, he cannot conceal his anger at the constant vilification by "bastards" who "planted nasty things in the media". "Not that I cared very much," he insists. "It was a bit like a mosquito bite in the evening that is still there in the morning, an irritant."

What riles him most is that Iraq was not disarmed peacefully. He cups his head in his hands. "The lowest point was at the end when we realised it was not going to happen. That was very disappointing. The war cost a lot in destruction and lives."

As to whether Iraq still harbours weapons of mass destruction (WMD), he says he "remains agnostic". Only time will tell - although that is passing by "quite fast and instead of talking about [finding] WMD they're talking about the programmes.

"We know for sure that they did exist ... and we cannot exclude they may find something," he says. "I was always more prudent in my approach. I am a lawyer ... in a court things should be beyond reasonable doubt.

"It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong. It could have been bad brinkmanship. Saddam could have misjudged and read about the demonstrations in London, Paris, here and thought they won't dare to go after me."

Mr Blix is worried about the future, expressing "nervousness" at the US adminstration's belief in pre-emptive strikes. "Obviously it raises the need for solid evidence and quality intelligence," he says, adding that intelligence material was treated in "a lighthearted way" by the US and Britain.

He insists the UN has a role, despite it being seen as an "alien power" by some within the US administration who "would not care if it sinks into the East river".

So does he feel that it was worth the personal pain, that he was effective?

"Oh yes," he says without hesitation. "We proved beyond a doubt and under immense pressure that independent, impartial, objective monitoring can be achieved. We were in nobody's pocket. Every day I get letters from inspectors who would like to work again. We're immensely proud of what Unmovic achieved."

50clicks, better than lousy 12....

Too bad you were not there.... hanging.

http://www.ctv.ca/special/sept11/images/homePage_5.jpg

You only seem to be quoting his earlier January report. Feel free to quote his later reports.

Were you saying that about the Guardian? I figured you used it to dismiss what he was saying, so I could do the same with fox. :thumbsup

Absolutely not. There was no threat posed. Hasn't this been demonstrated time and time again? Surely such a huge threat could have even put up a fight to keep his power. Now he has the luxury of becoming what he has been accused of. A possible self-fufilling prophecy.

http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html

Are you calling french canadians idiots?
no surprizing.:1orglaugh

No, just you.

ahhhh, finally we've reached the core of your argument.
you hate the US.
typical.
you're dismissed maggot.

12clicks, why do you keep talking about the war on terror- this thread is about Iraq isn't it? You said that Bush has never said Saddam was behind 9/11, well of coarse not. What he has done is confused stupid people like yourself, mostly through the media, into thinking that Iraq and the war on terror are one and the same. They're not. Guess what jackass, Canada sent troops into Afghanistan. That was the war on terror. Iraq isn't. Get it strait.

George Bush is not America. Hating Bush and his regime does not mean we hate America.

At last light in this thread.

hahaha, no. I just can't

you believe whatever gets your inferior ass through the day.

Good comeback/point. :thumbsup

Speaking of denial, were you asleep during the entire clinton presidency?