Pigs Nix Nigs’ ‘Jinx.

Those were, uh, different times, of course.

Why do people insist on saying that Blix was right? It must be hard to watch your country do what you think is wrong and be unable to change it (losing elections and all).

No hard WMD discoveries donít mean that we shouldnít have gone into Iraq, in my opinion. We had to give the entire Islamic world the message that regimes will fall if they harbor and arm the terrorists. Iraq was just the Islamic country that was stupid enough to be shooting at our planes after 9/11. Boom, no more Saddam regime.

It was the right thing to do, despite Blixís being ìright.î He was factually ìrightî, but substantively wrong. Saddam, and all of the M.E. countries were and are a threat to Western Civilization. Victory in Iraq is necessary to make sure the rest of them get the message.

It seems to me that there are a lot of revisonists out there and Blix is among them.

You say he was right. Blix himslef said that the British dossier was correct. He said if anything it underestimated Iraq’s weapons ability.

If Blix had done his job a decade or so ago we might not be having this discussion today. There might not have been a dozen mandatory resolutions or sanctions or a food for oil scandal.

It took years for things to get to the point they are today and people like Blix played a large part in that. They can blame it all on Bush if they like, but that is not really the reality.

So what if Saddam Hussein did have a nuclear weapons program,so what if was a psychopatic meglomaniac with a bloodstained history stretching back into childhood? He only wanted to annihilate Israel.

So what if Hans Blix,the only good apple in a barrel load of rotten fruit,gave Saddam Hussein a pass on his nuclear program,civil servants make mistakes.It is only fair to take his word for it the second time that there were no WMD in Iraq after all he did work for the UN.

As the man said,”Do you feel lucky”

Wrong. The choice was between enforcing its prior resolutions — however it chose to do so — and irrelevance.

The fact that three of the UNSC’s members were being bribed to avoid enforcing those very resolutions, were colluding with the former regime to circumvent sanctions they’d voted for, and were colluding with the UN to loot Iraq seems to have escaped his analysis.

But given the incompetence, corruption and tyranny abetment of his colleagues at the UN, it would be a toss up as to whether Blix is being careless, dishonest, or both.

The U.N. has become the cloak of darkness for too much evil. Abolish it.

Blix was wrong just like everybody else. He assumed there was a WMD program waiting to be found because every major intelligence service believed he had a program. All he was arguing for was more inspections to find the WMD program. I recommend you read the Duefler Report [I have a copy on my desk] so you can finally understand that the answer to the question is not a simple yes/no. The MSM spun it as binary answer to aide the Kerry campaign. No was the answer they wanted and I donít think they bothered to read the report.

Robert, one can certainly make a case that Bush made the right decision based on the uncertainty about WMD and the other factions you mention. (I’m not 100% sure I agree with it, but so be it.) But making that case doesn’t require pretending that Blix was a bumbling Inspector Clouseau (see Kevin P’s comment) and, if anything, is weakened by doing so.