Thank you Hans Blix
Given the five year anniversary for the Iraq war, yesterday I wrote a post as a link fest to the various articles and blog posts written about the war. Today I came across an article by Hans Blix, Head of U.N. Weapons inspectors prior to the war in Iraq, that gives his inside view and account of the actions leading up to and after the launch for the Iraq war.
This is a choice quote from the article that puts Bush 2.0's rationale for the war into perspective:
"Responsibility for the war must rest, though, on what those launching it knew by March 2003. By then, Unmovic inspectors had carried out some 700 inspections at 500 sites without finding prohibited weapons. The contract that George Bush held up before Congress to show that Iraq was purchasing uranium oxide was proved to be a forgery. The allied powers were on thin ice, but they preferred to replace question marks with exclamation marks. They could not succeed in eliminating WMDs because they did not exist. Nor could they succeed in the declared aim to eliminate al-Qaida operators, because they were not in Iraq. They came later, attracted by the occupants. A third declared aim was to bring democracy to Iraq, hopefully becoming an example for the region. Let us hope for the future; but five years of occupation has clearly brought more anarchy than democracy."
But go ahead and read the rest of the article... it's worth the time.
This is a choice quote from the article that puts Bush 2.0's rationale for the war into perspective:
"Responsibility for the war must rest, though, on what those launching it knew by March 2003. By then, Unmovic inspectors had carried out some 700 inspections at 500 sites without finding prohibited weapons. The contract that George Bush held up before Congress to show that Iraq was purchasing uranium oxide was proved to be a forgery. The allied powers were on thin ice, but they preferred to replace question marks with exclamation marks. They could not succeed in eliminating WMDs because they did not exist. Nor could they succeed in the declared aim to eliminate al-Qaida operators, because they were not in Iraq. They came later, attracted by the occupants. A third declared aim was to bring democracy to Iraq, hopefully becoming an example for the region. Let us hope for the future; but five years of occupation has clearly brought more anarchy than democracy."
But go ahead and read the rest of the article... it's worth the time.
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