Blix Enjoys Lib Establishment Treatment

Blix Enjoys Lib Establishment Treatment

Even after the centrifuge parts and the plans and the other clues found in Iraq, Blix still apparently believes that Saddam was just a nice guy who got caught up on the wrong side of an argument with the world's biggest bully.

If only the US had not been so darn stubborn in its belief that a man who had previously USED WMD might be holding more in hand and trying to get/create even more.

Poor Saddam.

As for CNN's completely dispassionate and neutral reporting on this issue, I am not sure that Blix has been exactly "vindicated".

True - no major WMD have been found to this point.
False - no one believed that Iraq had WMD - including the UN.

True - Al Qaeda is still known to have been based in Afghanistan.
False - no terror link has been drawn between Iraq and major terrorist players (anybody ever hear of Adu Nidal (see also) among others?)

True - Blix makes a lot of uncorroborated claims about what the Bush Administration said to him.
False - these claims from an open opponent of this administration should be taken without a grain of salt (if not a truckload).

Vindicated Blix returns to U.S.

At NYU, he was introduced by faculty members as a "real-life hero," "unbiased and critical," and his comments drew rounds of thunderous applause during his two hour appearance.

It was a striking contrast to the contentious appearances he made in the U.N. Security Council in the months leading up to the war. At that time, he was often criticized as pro-Iraqi or anti-American because his teams were coming up empty and refusing to blame Saddam for their failures.

Blix said he had been convinced for years that the Iraqis were hiding weapons of mass destruction but began having doubts when intelligence provided by the United States and other countries wasn't producing results. He blamed an over-reliance on defectors and a refusal on the part of the White House to consider the possibility that the intelligence was wrong.