[Right_in_Virginia]

He made several remarks that made it clear he was going to attack and it's too late for Saddam to disarm now.

I'm guessing Blix is busy editing the report he's due to give tomorrow.

(I, too, wish he had chosen a different setting....but, all things considered I think the UN and France & Co. got his "drift".)

[George W. Bush]

I'm guessing Blix is busy editing the report he's due to give tomorrow.

Yes. Britain's Shaw is twisting that arm pretty hard, along with Powell. Bush's heavy "inevitability" gives it a bigger push. So, unless Blix wants his report to be the basis under which the U.N. becomes utterly powerless in world affairs, he has to make it tough enough to Britain and the U.S. adequate pretext. Then he has to let the rest of the SC be political and destroy the U.N. if that's what they want.

Blix isn't just a fact-finder. It's a sensitive political job where absolute truth is not actually the objective. Blix gets a lot of criticism here because most people don't understand the nature of his job at the U.N. We all know what his job should be. But not what it really is in practice.

[Howlin]

I'm guessing Blix is busy editing the report he's due to give tomorrow.

Do you guys know that Blix has a 160 page "report" he's NOT giving the UN tomorrow?