Hans Blix: Iraq Destroyed WMD 10 Years Ago

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix now believes Iraq destroyed its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago and that intelligence agencies were wrong in their weapons assessment that led to war.

In an interview with Australian radio from Sweden, Blix said the search for evidence of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons would probably only uncover documents at best.

"The more time that has passed, the more I think it's unlikely that anything will be found," Blix said in the interview, which was broadcast on Wednesday.

"I'm certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, as they maintained, destroyed almost all of what they had in the summer of 1991," Blix said.

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[Zero Gravitas]

1. Bush* Lied. Saddam Told the Truth.

Whoda thunk it? Bush is a well known liar, but the surprise here is that the Iraqis were telling the truth about the WMD programs.

But then of course we knew that the WMDs were destroyed in the early 90s from that idiot Kamal Hussien. Of course they were all too willing to repeat his assertions as to how much nerve gas etc. they once had, but at the same time they forgot to mention that he also told them that the stockpiles were destroyed.

[peacetalksforall]

2. And so are we to believe that Britain, Canada, Australia, Israel,

and the U.S. with all their Echelon spying machines and their billion dollar intelligence operations and sharing couldn't know that? Or did they? Which way do the lies lay?

[LeftCoast]

3. It seems to me that it means we can never, ever trust our Gov't again

Can we have a functional society if we can't trust anything our government tells us?

I'm very concerned about this. In the aftermath of next major disaster, be it terrorist or natural, can we trust the EPA to tell us the truth about our safety? Can we ever restore trust again?

[LizW]

7. Sure, we do the same thing we did in '76

We change the government.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. THE U.S. DESTROYED MUCH OF THE WMD IN SECRET

After the Armistice in Gulf War I, special U.S. military teams were sent deep into Iraq to destroy the miles upon miles of weapons bunkers in that country. At the giant weapons dump at Khamisiyah, our own military identified WMD. At the same time, we knew that our own U.S. Commerce Department had sold the basic materials to make these weapons to Iraq during the Reagan-Bush administrations. This was later brought to light by the Reigle Report before the U.S. Congress that took place in the mid 1990s.

At Khamisiyah and at Al Nasiriyah after Gulf War I, OUR OWN GOVERNMENT SECRETLY BLEW UP CHEMICAL WEAPONS, INTENTIONALLY EXPOSING OUR OWN TROOPS TO WMD! This was one of the causes of Gulf War Syndrome. Our own CIA only recently admitted that, yes, chemical weapons were destroyed by the U.S. military right after the First Gulf War at Khamisiyah. But they say that it was unintentional. Of course, they failed to mention that military ops wearing protective gear were sent to these sites beforehand and that warheads containing sarin gas and other chemicals were first tested before being blown up. There are probably several other sites where we found and destroyed WMD, besides Khamisiyah, but this is the only one admitted by our government to date. The reason for this cover-up is that our government (1) didn't want to admit that we had sold these stockpiles to Hussein so the WMD destruction took place in secret (2) didn't want to admit that we had INTENTIONALLY exposed our own military in Iraq to WMD resulting in Gulf War Syndrome and kept the secret (3) wanted a further excuse to use military force in the future against Saddam Hussein, knowing all the while that much of his WMD stockpiles no longer existed. Colin Powell going before the UN to detail Hussein's stockpile of WMD that he possessed before Gulf War I, when we knew that we had destroyed much of this in secret, is beyond lies. This is a major secret and cover-up that continues within our government: the extent of WMD to which we intentionally exposed our own military, following the conclusion of the First Gulf War. Just put Khamisiyah and WMD into any search engine and you'll come up with some very interesting articles.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00122.htm

[Gman]

5. Very interesting stuff

I know there's a lot more than we have been told.

[emad]

6. So something SMELLS.......time to ask Norman Schwartzkopf

a few questions: he and the UK's Michael Jackson were the prime military movers in the Gulf in 91 and 92, and privy to Arab League/Gulf Co Operation Council intelligence data on fundamentalist Islamic suicide cults/terrorist organisations/mercenary groups affiliated to Russian money launderers.

Their current silence has been deafening.

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