Blix 'hid smoking gun' from Britain and US

The Times ^ | March 10, 2003 | James Bone

[Dog]

Powell said something today on one of our Sunday chat shows .....about making news this week ....I wonder if he meant this...

[MHGinTN]

When confronted with the truth of the unreported drones for weapon dispersal, the French frogs will swear it shows the inspections are working! NOTHING will change de villibedpan's assertion that he will veto any resolution that could lead to war ... which, of course, makes the U.N. irrelevant as any kind of deliberative/international enforcement body. They will have been dealt the final death blow by the leading appeasenik, de Villipin, and the assend of it will have German, Chinese, and Russian lips all over it! Time for that feckless debating squad to get the hell off of American soil. It is repugnant that they carry on their useless rhetoric within spitting distance of the WTC hallowed ground. Get US out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of America!

[bellevuesbest]

Not NYT! Not there. I'm going to check the Washington Times and Fox news.

Somebody put up a post from the Australian Times on this.

[Dog]

This Times story just hit Drudge...people will see it now..

[MadIvan]

This Times story just hit Drudge...people will see it now..

It needs to be broadcast everywhere, blaring out from every news source. The more it gets out, the more likely we can get the UN to do what it is supposed to.

Or alternatively, crush it.

Regards, Ivan

[Steven W.]

That idiot Keith Olberman actually reported it as "Breaking" as he closed his MSNBC coverage of the war at 8:00 PM EST.

[Laverne]

BTTT; all cable shows right now have "canned" shows on, hope this is big ticket talk item starting at 9pm and going until....well, the vote on Tuesday.

[Capriole]

Ivan, you have absolutely NO IDEA what a relief it is to us Americans to know that there is at least one Brit who has preserved his sanity even when surrounded by the madness that is so prevalent in modern Britain. We love you. Thank you, and keep it coming, friend!

[SunStar]

BTTT

[prairiebreeze]

**That idiot Keith Olberman actually reported it as "Breaking"...8*

Somebody ought to show old Keith how to sign up at FReeRepublic. He'd have his news lots sooner. :^)

Prairie

[dano1]

This seems choreographed to me. I suspect some other governments are pulling Blixes' strings.

[APBaer]

"Blix was likely the worst of the inspectors.
He is naive and gullible and simply not up to the job."

Moi?

[Canadian Outrage]

LOL - Inspector Clouseau and my eye is starting to twitch!!

[alrea]

I also suspect that Sadaam is paying Kim Dung Ill, or whatever his name is, to act up now, but that's another issue

send some food and a case of liquor for favors

[t4texas]

It is a bim. Are you expecting a bim?

Seriously, the drone issue should not and cannot be considered in isolation as a stand alone circumstance. If considered together with the fact that Iraq has not satisfactorily accounted for chemical agents (which Blix readily admits) this is an ominous development. As such, the drone represents a delivery system for weapons of mass destruction that are known to have existed and which are presently unaccounted for. Blix knows this and that the gravity of the combined facts is too much to withstanding resistance to US/British insistence on a literal drop-dead date for disarmament.

[bellevuesbest]

I 2nd the motion! All in favor? Say Aye...

[Happy2BMe]

PSSST! .. You're Sure The Drones . . They - They're Not In . . The Reports - RIGHT!?

[spitz]

Blix is an employee of the security council, it’s not for him to decide for or against war, he just collates the facts. If he has overstepped his brief he should go, and so should his boss Annan because this is such a serious omission that it calls into question the validity of the whole process.

[way-right-of-center]

Olberman is a pompous jackass anyway. He couldn't cut it as a sportscaster so PMSNBC hired him. Supposedly, the guys at ESPN hated him (and Kilborn too).Another great staffing move by the same group that canned their highest rated prime-time host.

[Eastbound]

"His job is not to influence whether war is justified, but rather to inspect and report."

True. The criminal investigator does not serve as the defense attorney.