At 11:11 PM 3/15/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: >...and does an interview: > >http://tinyurl.com/2me3y >(NY Times > >"I think they had a set mind," Mr. Blix said on NBC's "Today" show as he >began a 10-day American book tour in the week marking the first year >anniversary of the United States-led invasion.
In another interview, reporter by UN Wire http://www.unwire.org On the first anniversary of the withdrawal of weapons inspectors from Iraq, Hans Blix, the former chief weapons inspector, said yesterday that the war was not "predetermined" and could have been avoided if the United States thought more critically about its evidence of weapons of mass destruction, if inspections had continued or if Iraq had cooperated better with the United Nations. Blix, the former director of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) <http://www.unmovic.org/> , said at a news conference, "I don't think it was predetermined even into the last days of the buildup." While numerous media reports say U.S. President George W. Bush had settled on war by the summer of 2002, "I don't think that really says that the war is predetermined; preplanned, yes, but predetermined, no," said Blix. War could have been averted if Iraq cooperated more, he added, but once the armed forces on Iraq's borders exceeded 200,000 troops, "I think it would be very hard to do anything else but to go in unless they had very spectacular progress" on inspections. _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
