Right. But the point doesn't change that inspection failed the first time due to the US doing shit it shouldn't have.Vympel wrote:Actually, Ando, it was Richard Butler who unilaterally (without consulting the UNSC) pulled the inspectors out, once the Iraqis learned that Butler had bowed to US pressure to seed US spies among the inspectors to spy on Iraq's power structure, rather than disarm Iraq.weemadando wrote:
Actually it was Richard Butler for the first decade, then he quit after Iraq legitimately expelled the inspectors due to the US putting intelligence agents in the group.
Hans Blix needs to STFU
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Naturallyweemadando wrote:Right. But the point doesn't change that inspection failed the first time due to the US doing shit it shouldn't have.Vympel wrote:Actually, Ando, it was Richard Butler who unilaterally (without consulting the UNSC) pulled the inspectors out, once the Iraqis learned that Butler had bowed to US pressure to seed US spies among the inspectors to spy on Iraq's power structure, rather than disarm Iraq.weemadando wrote:
Actually it was Richard Butler for the first decade, then he quit after Iraq legitimately expelled the inspectors due to the US putting intelligence agents in the group.
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Do you think they actually would have worked, even if they US hadn't done anything?weemadando wrote:Right. But the point doesn't change that inspection failed the first time due to the US doing shit it shouldn't have.Vympel wrote:
Actually, Ando, it was Richard Butler who unilaterally (without consulting the UNSC) pulled the inspectors out, once the Iraqis learned that Butler had bowed to US pressure to seed US spies among the inspectors to spy on Iraq's power structure, rather than disarm Iraq.
Have to agree with Crown, Vympel and Ando here. What Blix said of the US behavior before the war is absolutely correct. The outcome of the war seems to have been mostly good all around, but it doesn't change the fact that the buildup to it was handled in spectacularly crappy fashion. What he said of the destruction caused and so on is crap, but he can't really go and say out loud that the war was a good idea. It was, from the humanitarian point of view for the Iraqi people, but in all other respects it was not.
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More Blix speak:http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0, ... 51,00.html
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