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Blix is more than incompetent, he is an accomplice to the Iraqi regime

Cleary he is...probably bought off somehow. It's amazing to me that officials such as Paul Wolfowitz have publicly stated that the U.N. inspectors were compromised, yet scant mention in the media of it. I also suspect that Sadaam is paying Kim Dung Ill, or whatever his name is, to act up now, but that's another issue.

This has been posted on several threads, but it is good information so here it is again. It outlines how Blix' bunch is paid for out of iraqi oil money. http://www.unidir.ch/pdf/articles/pdf-art77.pdf

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Significantly, Iraq pays for UNMOVIC through oil sales via an escrow account (0.8% of oil revenues). This allows financial control over Iraqi assets for UNMOVIC, and thus gives the United Nations another set of dentures in its dealings with Iraq. The money from Iraqís oil sales also enables UNMOVIC to employ all of its staff, inspectors and technical experts on United Nations contracts (one-year or sixmonth duration). In so doing, 1284 deals with one of the main criticisms of UNSCOM, that staff were paid for by their governments and thus may have felt beholden to their individual governments rather than to the United Nations. This criticism was refuted by many involved in UNSCOM but the worry still persisted. Directly employing UNSCOM staff allows the United Nations to impose its rules on employee loyalty and significantly Article 100 of the United Nations Charter, which instructs staff not to seek or receive instructions from any government or from any other authority and charges Member States not to seek to influence staff in the discharge of their responsibilities. through oil sales via an escrow account (0.8% of oil revenues). This allows financial control over Iraqi assets for UNMOVIC. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------