Are WE Going To Ignore Hans Blix... Again ???

[WillyT]

Hans Blix: U.S. has “poor excuse” for Syria incursion now
Seeing echoes of Iraq, weapons inspector says "political dynamics are running ahead of due process"
BY NATASHA LENNARD - Salon
TUESDAY, AUG 27, 2013 07:59 AM PDT

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Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s Monday announcement that it was “undeniable” that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons in a rebel-held suburb, calls among Western leaders for military intervention have reached fever pitch.

Hans Blix, the chief U.N. arms inspector for Iraq from 2000 to 2003, who famously decried the Bush administration’s over-hyping of the threat of WMD in Iraq to justify war, is seeing a similar pattern with regards to Syria and chemical weapons.

Blix told the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/hans-blix-the-united-stat_b_3819367.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

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Link: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/27/hans_blix_u_s_has_poor_excuse_for_syria_incursion_now/singleton/

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[Harmony Blue]

1. Probably...

what could go wrong?

[smokey nj]

2. Looks that way, WillyT.

[NightWatcher]

3. But some guy says they're throwing babies out of incubators

Damn I'm getting my bullshit wars confused.

[BuelahWitch]

10. I was going to "like" your post

I forgot I wasn't on Facebook!
But you're so correct, they're all starting to run together..

[LearningCurve]

4. Yes nt

[Alamuti Lotus]

5. it worked out so well the first time, so why not?? *nt

[GeorgeGist]

6. The SOS made it clear that the evidence was undeniable ...

[David__77]

8. Thank you for the post.

It's a good point, that bear repeating again and again and again.

[OnyxCollie]

24. At the same time, the FBI had said Dr. Stephen Hatfill sent the anthrax.

But it turned out that he really wasn't the one.

No, it was Dr. Bruce Ivins, a guy who had killed himself after being hounded by the FBI.

Not that any of this had any bearing on Saddam, who definitely probably most likely had anthrax.

Trust us.

[Lasher]

7. Simply stated, there is no doubt that Bashar al-Assad now has weapons of mass destruction.

There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.

[David__77]

9. Too much comedy.

Such a threat, that we must support the al Qaeda and cannibal terrorists fighting Syria. We should even give them gold-plated cutlery!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. You forgot about his purchasing yellowcake from AAAAFrica

[backscatter712]

11. Didn't you know? Blix got fed to the sharks!

[Harmony Blue]

13. That movie was filled with black humor

that hit all the right spots.

[Puzzledtraveller]

16. HANS BRIX!

[progressoid]

12. Yup. n/t

[DeSwiss]

14. It worked so well before.....

- K&R

[broiles]

15. Looks like the media is going for it again.

[geomon666]

17. But if we wait for the smoking gun

it'll become a mushroom cloud!

[magical thyme]

23. a sarin cloud. that was then. this is now.

gotta keep your warmonging threats straight.

[blackspade]

18. Fuck, the MIC at it again.

The authoritarian warmongers are out in force trying to divert attention away from all of the domestic issues that actually have the American public's attention.

[Safetykitten]

19. Apparently.

[madfloridian]

20. Yes, WillyT, I think we are.

Again.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

21. What was said years ago by David M. Shoup, the Commandant of the Marine Corps 1960-63,

is applicable today as it was then:

"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own -- and if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans. "

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Oh cm'on like the man knows a thing

[Live and Learn]

25. Sounds like it to me. The news sound bites are frighteningly familiar. nt

[silvershadow]

26. Yes. The UN is a quaint artifact of a bygone era. Signed, the PTB. nt

[whatchamacallit]

27. Blix is full of shit this time because the president is a democrat

[JoeyT]

28. Of course we are.

We don't tolerate war crimes from others, even if we don't actually know who committed them.

This is playing out exactly like Iraq, with one exception: Everyone sees through the justifications and the cheerleaders that support it. It probably helps that the people cheering it on are completely recycling the talking points from Iraq. "They know things you don't!" "We have to trust the president!" I expect to see yellowcake uranium make an appearance any day now.

[abelenkpe]

29. Probably

Funny thing about all the news of our preparing to strike Syria many of my conservative relatives and friends on FB have suddenly gone from posting their usual bigoted ugly rants against the administration and liberals and are posting things like:

Bombs away Mr. President!

and

Make America Proud!

Such sickening bloodlust.

Cannot tell up from down anymore...

[Little Star]

31. Sure does look like it :(