http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

And what does Hans Blix care about the US political climate at the time? Dude’s a Swedish diplomat.

He’s working for the UN. The US has a permanent seat on the Security Council. The UN is located in the US. The US provides a lot of funding for the UN. US Conservatives want to stop funding, withdraw from the organization and tell them to find new headquarters. You’ve decontextualized his actions down to a stick figure cartoon.

Once again, on Powell’s UN speech, Hans Blix called it “An excellent presentation.” How hard would it have been for him to instead say, “From my position as the head of UNMOVIC, those assertions strike me as extremely dubious.” ????????

Might not have stopped the war, certainly, but would have been a hell of a lot better than “an excellent presentation.”

And what does Hans Blix care about the US political climate at the time? Dude’s a Swedish diplomat.

That bunch was quick to tear into anyone of substance who suggested that the invasion might be anything less than divine providence. If Hans Blix had gone beyond his evidence to press a case against invasion, that bunch would have put a gun to the UN’s head to get him removed, and leave a critical vacuum at a time when events were moving rapidly. Better to have a credible voice against invasion than than no voice at all. At the time, nothing Blix said could have stopped the momentum for war.

Rather than venting fury at Blix, why not ask about the perpetrators in the Administration and their friends in the think tanks. Has anyone assembled a list of names and how they have fared since the invasion? and how many are working on plans for invading Iran … 

But U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield dismissed our reports with one of his wittier retorts: “The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Rumsfeld’s logic was correct, I believe…

Ah, the celestial teapot argument. Always a tough one to counter.

But he certainly didn’t challenge it very strongly.

Do you remember the political climate at the time? Like the part about the UN being run by aliens who were trying to take away our freedoms? And the fact that the US government was not-very-subtly supporting that view?

UN agents only ever have any power when they’re in agreement with the White House.

That right there. Fark you, Hans Brix.

Blaming Blix seems a bit misguided…

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/15/michael-moore-on-the-iraq-war-the-liberals-backed-it.html

How about holding the people who lied about the intelligence and started the war responsible instead of the dude who did more than any other individual human being to prevent it?

He could not say what he did not know to be true, and I appreciate that.  Sadly, he had an impossible job, speaking truth to power-mad lunatics and their apparent legions of enablers.

There are times when it sucks to be right.  The outcome of the criminally stupid invasion of Iraq, for all involved, was and remains one of those times for all of us who opposed it.