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    Default Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

    Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

    The UN's former chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has said it is his
    "firm view" that the Iraq war was illegal.
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    Hans Blix: "They should have drawn the conclusion that their sources were poor"

    Dr Blix told the Iraq inquiry the UK had sought to go down the "UN
    route" to deal with Saddam Hussein but failed.

    Ex-Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, who advised the war was lawful on
    the basis of existing UN resolutions, "wriggled about" in his
    arguments, he suggested.

    Dr Blix said his team of inspectors had visited 500 sites but found no
    evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

    As head of the UN's Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
    (UNMOVIC) between 1999 and 2003, Dr Blix was a key figure in the
    run-up to the March 2003 invasion as he sought to determine the extent
    of Saddam's weapons programme.

    'No smoking gun'

    Asked about the inspections he oversaw between November 2002 and 18
    March 2003 - when his team was forced to pull out of Iraq on the eve
    of the war - he said he was "looking for smoking guns" but did not
    find any.
    While his team discovered prohibited items such as missiles beyond the
    permitted range, missile engines and a stash of undeclared documents,
    he said these were "fragments" and not "very important" in the bigger
    picture.

    "We carried out about six inspections per day over a long period of time.

    "All in all, we carried out about 700 inspections at different 500
    sites and, in no case, did we find any weapons of mass destruction."

    Although Iraq failed to comply with some of its disarmament
    obligations, he added it "was very hard for them to declare any
    weapons when they did not have any".

    Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10770239
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    Default Re: Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

    The movie greenzone comes to mind tho hehe!

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    Default Re: Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

    That is like running into the theater after the entire thing has already burned down to the ground and yelling fire.

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    Default Re: Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

    We all knew that this War was wrong at the time...as if War is ever right!...In London alone there was the biggest rally ever in the City's history against going to War there...the British public were almost 100% against it, apart from a few hotheads...our views were ignored as all of our views are ignored once these parasites gain the power that they all seem to crave. We all know that Bush and Blair are War Criminals who should be brought to justice, but they never will be..not in a million years. It's an awful thing to contemplate that these bastards who have so much blood on their hands can walk through life with impunity...protected for the rest of their natural lives at the behest of the tax payer.

    If there is a God...I just hope that they live to see tragedy in their own lives. I doubt that it will happen though, as the thoroughly rotten, corrupt and evil within our communities simply seem to flourish whilst leaving us all reeling in the wake of their destruction.

    Thanks for reading my rant

    Rimbaud

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