Hans Blix appeared at Princeton last Tuesday, a summary appearing in Sunday's Times (of
Trenton ). A quarter of a thousand people braved the ice and snow to hear his lecture "Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism and Security." I wish he would've spoken this bluntly about the Bushi'ite regime being "divorced from reality" before the election when he appeared on MTP etc.
Forget WMDs, Not One stinking smoking gun
"Blix told the crowd that in the space of several months he and his team performed 700 inspections of 500 Iraqi sites and never found even a "smoking gun."
Your leaders are fuckin loons
"The U.S. and U.K. preferred to believe in faith-based intelligence," Blix said, amusing his standing-room crowd, which spilled over into another lecture room where his talk was simulcast on a TV projection screen"..."In foreign affairs, as in medicine, successful operations require correct diagnosis," Blix said in his criticism of U.S. policy. "Such diagnosis must have as its aim real reality, not virtual reality."
Nice analogy
"One student asked why the Saddam Hussein regime so often tried to bluff inspectors, leading many to believe that they did in fact have WMDs. Blix said he thought Saddam was trying to stand tall and show other countries, especially Iran, that he was strong. "It's like hanging a sign on the door, `beware of dog,' without having a dog," Blix said. "It's certainly cheaper."