"Inspector faults US, UK in Iraq war buildup" by Associated Press | July 28, 2010
LONDON — The United Nations inspector who led a doomed hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq told Britain’s inquiry into the 2003 invasion yesterday that the United States and United Kingdom relied on flawed intelligence and showed dubious judgment in the buildup to war.
Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector, said Washington was “high on military’’ action in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and refused to heed concerns over the paltry threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime.
At a London hearing, Blix said those who were “100 percent certain there were weapons of mass destruction’’ in Iraq turned out to have “less than zero percent knowledge’’ of where the purported hidden caches would be found....
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Yeah, turns out THEY KNEW there were NO WEAPONS!!!
Blix told the panel that he had warned Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain in a February 2003 meeting — as well as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during separate talks — that Hussein might have no weapons of mass destruction....
Something MILLIONS of PROTESTERS SCREAMED from the STREETS!!
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I blame OUR PoS NEWSPAPERS most of all!!!