Top UN Inspectors: War wasn't justified

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/21/iraq.weapons/index.html

Blix, ElBaradei: U.S. ignored evidence against WMDs
Sunday, March 21, 2004 Posted: 6:42 PM EST (2342 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United Nations' top two weapons experts said Sunday that the invasion of Iraq a year ago was not justified by the evidence in hand at the time.

"I think it's clear that in March, when the invasion took place, the evidence that had been brought forward was rapidly falling apart," Hans Blix, who oversaw the agency's investigation into whether Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."

Blix described the evidence Secretary of State Colin Powell presented to the U.N. Security Council in February 2003 as "shaky," and said he related his opinion to U.S. officials, including national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

"I think they chose to ignore us," Blix said.

Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke to CNN from IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

ElBaradei said he had been "pretty convinced" that Iraq had not resumed its nuclear weapons program, which the IAEA dismantled in 1997.

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[saigon68]

1. We here told them that

War profits were obviously more important

[TheDonkey]

2. CNN covering it heavily, MSNBC site featuring Clarke

we need to keep these 2 stories in the news and start another terrorgate.

[4dsc]

3. But this doesn't matter any more

haven't you recieve the email.. Iraqi's a now better off without Saddam and it was the "intelligence agencies" fault, not dubya's!!

[truthisfreedom]

4. i think it's about time to pound my old signs back into the yard.

i knew i was right.

[Magleetis]

5. The anti-war movement was right

We tried to tell them but they would not listen. We also said that attacking Iraq will lead to more violence throughout the world. I hope the bombings in Madrid are not a foreshadowing of things to come, but I fear the worst. Bush has put our country in danger. I am so angry and bewildered but this idiotic administration. I hope we can fix all the damage he has done.

[callous taoboy]

7. As soon as

they began talking of hitting Iraq I knew in my gut that I was listening to people who would've benefitted the world greatly if they'd gone into the used car business instead of politics. I was so disgusted by the bullshit leading us into war that I did not watch the beginning of the war. It was media blackout time for weeks after the bombing began.

[rocktivity]

6. "Liars and crooks" equals "Have you no shame?"

It took just four simple to ignite the beginning of the end of the McCarthy era--four words and one person who dared to unleash the most private but most dangerous of everyone's thoughts into the atmosphere never to be recovered. Suddenly, fighting back not only became possible but obligatory.

Whoever described Kerry's "liars and crooks" remark as "getting the l-word out there" should share the Nobel Prize with him. The charade is dissipating, burning away like fog when the sun breaks through. Kerry has made "Bush hate," as conservative media puts it, both socially acceptable and politically correct. The public vented their rage and vengance upon McCarthyism once it became "okay." Here's hoping that American history repeats itself.

P.S. If you haven't seen my NYC peace march pics, just click on the very insighful young lady below.



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