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...arguments than their motives for making them. That has its drawbacks. When the French warned about the potential hazards of occupying an Arab country--lessons learned from their colonial history--Bush's focus on their motives for avoiding war left little room for consideration of their arguments. Maybe Hans Blix wasn't just a peacenik but truly couldn't find weapons stockpiles. In fact, lots of people in a position to warn about risks that needed to be factored into the planning--we won't be welcomed, we will need more troops, the oil revenues...
...judgment that no one can make definitively yet. I would not have done it until after Hans Blix finished his job. Having said that, over 600 of our people have died since the conflict was over. We've got a big stake now in making it work. I want it to have been worth it, even though I didn't agree with the timing of the attack. I think if you have a pluralistic, secure, stable Iraq, the people of Iraq will be better off, and it might help the process of internal reform in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere...
Regarding intelligence on Iraq's WMD, Bush Administration weapons inspector David Kay told a Senate committee, "We were almost all wrong." Almost all, but not quite. On the eve of the war, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix reported finding no evidence of WMD stockpiles in Iraq and asked that the search continue. GENE BRYANT Nashville, Tenn...
...force” because it had “not disarmed itself,” intensive inspections had yielded no evidence that the regime actually had any WMD of which to disarm itself. Nor were the Iraqis resisting the inspectors: on March 8, two weeks before the war began, Blix reported to the Security Council that the Iraqi regime had “started the process of destruction,” of its conventional Al Samoud missiles. Blix also noted the “significant Iraqi effort underway to clarify a major source of uncertainty as to the quantities...
...mean what they say, they are not willing to follow through.” It’s funny he should mention that. That is essentially what the world community has been saying since he prematurely ended the inspections—without regard to the impressive progress made by Blix and El Baradei or the cooperation of the Iraqis—after promising that the U.S. would only resort to war if inspections failed...