UN aims to send Blix back

Why would sending Hans Blix back into Iraq will let us know more abobut "what's going on", vs. what's going on now? Is there just an implicit distrust of the coalition, vs. Blix?
 
Joe DeFuria said:
Is there just an implicit distrust of the coalition, vs. Blix?
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Yes. But it's fully understandable, isn't it? At the end of the day there's no reason not to use UN inspectors, so those with anti-US viewpoints will be highly suspicious if the US doesn't use them.

At the end of the day it won't matter. CNN's telling us that Iraq shipped it's WMDs to Syria before the invasion. I wonder if they'll bother with sending in the inspectors before invading this time? :)
 
i am sticking with Tawler. I don't think BLix was/is effective. This is just a meassure to shut up the mantra spouting minority.
 
Trawler said:
Joe DeFuria said:
Is there just an implicit distrust of the coalition, vs. Blix?
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Yes. But it's fully understandable, isn't it? At the end of the day there's no reason not to use UN inspectors, so those with anti-US viewpoints will be highly suspicious if the US doesn't use them.
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Couldn't agree more. Would you believe the US government even after they have used forged evidence as "proof" for the existence of WMDs?
 
Snyder said:
Couldn't agree more. Would you believe the US government even after they have used forged evidence as "proof" for the existence of WMDs?
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Hmm, what incident are you referring to?

Only thing that springs to mind is when British intelligence claimed it had documentation of Iraq trying to acquire nuclear materials from somewhere in Africa. Turned out it was a (poor!) forgery.
 
I ask you the reverse. Why Blix should not go now?
IMHO it will increase the number of people looking for the WMDs. ;)
 
Let us not forget apart of the resolutions on Iraq where that Iraq had to demonstrate it had rid itself of WMDs which it hasn't done with any satisfactory results.

But then we could all be wrong and removing Saddam might have been a bad idea :LOL:, Especially for the Iraqi people who truly flurished under his rule.
 
I don't think sending Blix in is going to make a difference one way or the other. He's one guy. ONE GUY, looking at bits and pieces of an entire country. He has never been very successful with his searches, but I think it's due to the fact that there is only so much one person can do. I do think that it would lend credence to anything we do find over there, and may pacify the UN...they are licking their wounds, and I think this may go a long way towards easing the tensions. Send Blix in. He's not going to be able to offer much help, but it can't hurt, either.
 
Please MrsSkywalker read the articles. UN will send the inpectors back, probably the entire team.
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I read the articles. While I understand that team members may be sent in as well, it is not the team that's important to the rest of the world. When push comes to shove, no one gives a rat's ass about the "team members"...it's all about Blix. That's what I meant. Blix is the guy that takes the heat and the praise. He's the one who has failed in the eyes of many and succeeded in the eyes of others...his "team" is not really a consideration in most peoples' minds. It will not matter how many team members get sent in with him, if any get sent in at all. It'll all be about Blix, just like it has for the past year. He's the UN puppet, he's the figurehead everyone will be looking for. I understand that there are many others involved, but look back at all the past articles about the inspections. Blix IS the inspections team.
 
MrsSkywalker said:
Blix IS the inspections team.
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I doubt any Syrian or Palestinian would give a fig who leads the team. Heck, get Richard Butler out of moth balls. He always provided entertainment!

The important thing is that the inspections are carried out by the UN, as the US inspectors will be percieved by some to have a vested interest.
 
Trawler said:
Snyder said:
Couldn't agree more. Would you believe the US government even after they have used forged evidence as "proof" for the existence of WMDs?
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Hmm, what incident are you referring to?

Only thing that springs to mind is when British intelligence claimed it had documentation of Iraq trying to acquire nuclear materials from somewhere in Africa. Turned out it was a (poor!) forgery.
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I was referring to the documents colin powell brought forth in the UN some time before the war to prove once and for all that Iraq had WMDs. If I'm not mistaken it was admitted that these documents were from a student's work 12 years ago.
 
sure enough, i wonder if that means it would have been alright for us to use someone else's 12 year old earnings information for filing with the irs? i mean it seems like it would only be fair. :LOL:
 
I think it would be a good idea to get the inspectors back. They have a lot more experience in finding these things than the troops have. Now that there's no regime to ask for cooperation either their work would be easier too. I don't think the inspectors should take over the search for WMDs, but rather join and cooperate with the coalition forces.
 
I don't think the inspectors should take over the search for WMDs, but rather join and cooperate with the coalition forces.
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Agreed. Also, if there are still pockets of resistence, as they are saying there may be, then I would think these pockets could be protecting something of interest. The troops could offer protection, and the inspectors could offer the troops valuable on the spot training that we can't reasonably give them here.
 
It might be a while. Yesterday the White House came out stating that Hans Blix and his team are not needed in Iraq, thank you very much.

Right now we need every shred of credibility, for the long haul, in the middle east. Blix's team would most certainly go a long ways to achieving that. Especially since, to date, no WMDs, according to CENTCOM, have been found and verified. All the "finds" to date have been verified as false positives.

No chemical, no nuclear, no biological. I really hope we find large stockpiles or our credibility, what's left of it that is, is going to take a nosedive off a cliff.

TIME Magazine said:
The Pentagon dispatched an entire brigade—3,000 troops—to the search and offered $200,000 bounties for any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) uncovered. Local officers were authorized to make payments of $2,500 on the spot.

"The White House is screaming, 'Find me some WMD,'" says a State Department official, adding that the task is one of many suddenly facing the department. Members of the Administration must feel a new bond with Blix, since they are now the ones arguing that these things take time.
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How ironic. :rolleyes:
 
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