Word: blix
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Long before David Kay took over in Iraq, before President Bush even gave the order to invade, teams of international weapons inspectors, led by Hans Blix and Mohammed El Baradei, spent months scouring Iraq for signs of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, or programs for producing them, and turned up nothing. In an interview a few months after the war, Blix commented pointedly, ‘’What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. I don?...
...antiwar Europeans who actually believed Saddam may have retained some WMD capability, the inspections were a valid strategy. After all, the U.S. and Britain could use their intelligence on Iraq's capability to point the inspectors to the suspect sites. But from very early on, chief inspector Hans Blix complained that the tips that he was given by U.S. and British intelligence were checked, and didn't pan out, and that whatever "hot" intelligence these government's claimed made them certain of their case for war wasn't being shared with the inspectors, and therefore could not be verified...
...case for war, of which remarkably little bears up. A comprehensive analysis of the fate of various prewar claims by the British American Security Information Council (http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Research/2004WMD3.htm#01) suggests that Bush and Blair may have done better to listen more carefully to chief UN weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix. The UN never actually claimed that Iraq still had stockpiles of banned weapons; merely that it had not provided the evidence to vouch for its claim to have destroyed all of those weapons. Treated like an ineffectual appeaser by most of the U.S. media before the war, Blix suddenly looks...
...inbox to e-mails updating me on the dogs’ appointments with the finest canine heart and dental specialists, or news of Pippi’s graduation from (obedience) school at the top of her class. The e-mails are inevitably signed “Love, Mom, Blix, Scuppers and Pippi the Pest.” A representative sample...
...Blix survived 2 1/2 hours of dental surgery yesterday. Dr Rosenblad is one of only a few board certified dental surgeons in the U.S.—only 4 in New England...Unfortunately Blix lost some teeth that were rotted but now he will be much healthier. Dr Rosenblad thinks Blix is about 6 years old. He did not do any root canals because the teeth were not worth saving, so you can stay in college instead of having to get a job to pay for Blix’s dental work. Blix was rather drunk from the morphine when...