Blix, Iraq's Weapons Declaration May Have Been True

Blix Says Iraq's Weapons Declaration May Have Been True

http://unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=1966

Agence France Presse
September 9th, 2003

Iraq may have been truthful when it told the UN Security Council in December that it did not have chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, a former chief UN weapons inspector said.

The declaration, submitted December 7 by the government of then-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was quickly dismissed as false and incomplete by the United States and Britain, which accused Baghdad of failing to disarm as required by Security Council Resolution 1441.

These charges were later used by Washington and London to justify the invasion of the country in late March.

But more than four months after US President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said facts presented by Iraq in the 12,000-page document may have been accurate.
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anyone see this in the US media?

I've said a couple of times on DU, and I'll say it again: you know you've got a really horrible person in the White House when his actions on the world stage end up making you actually feel sorry for a bad-ass dictator like Saddam Hussein, being in the mother of all no-win situations as he was: tell the truth, disarm even more (those silly missiles that went a few feet too far) and still gonna get bombed all to heck.

Eloriel

as if it was the most evil pack of lies ever written. Didn't they even use it as an example of Iraq ignoring UN resolutions?

Now who was telling the most outrageous pack of lies? Who ignored the UN?

when he himself spoke many times that it was incomplete.

http://autofeed.msn.co.in/pandoraV15/output/2BC06633-EC33-4E11-9DCE-E8A94FFB19B2.asp

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-04/22/article04.shtml

http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/UNMOVIC%20UDI%20Working%20Document%206%20March%2003.pdf