--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/25/06 10:53:56 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Instead, he noted, "We had made a rapid start. We did not have any > obstacles from the Iraqi side in going anywhere. They gave us > prompt access and we were in a great many places all over Iraq." > > Again I would like to know when and where Blix said this.
He said it to the BBC the previous day (March 19, 2003): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2867913.stm I notice you snipped this from my Consaon quote: Yesterday [March 19, 2003], the New York Times reported that the Pentagon has prepared an elaborate mission to find and test suspected chemical and biological weapons sites. Military sources told Judith Miller that they have a list of between 300 and 1,400 sites. Apparently the information to be used by the Pentagon teams wasn't disclosed to Hans Blix. Indeed, he told the BBC that his inspectors had been dispatched on several pointless excursions by American intelligence. Would the Bush administration have withheld useful information and intentionally sent the U.N. inspectors elsewhere? Then when the U.N. teams found nothing, the inspection process could be declared a failure. "I'm very curious to see if they [the U.S.] find something in Iraq," said Blix drily. Too many others > that where there complained of the obstacles they had to go through to inspect > suspected sites. Also there were times and places the Iraqis absolutely > forbid inspections. I don't recall Saddam ever giving the UN inspectors access to > his forty or so Peace Palaces, which were big enough to hold enormous stock > piles of weapons. Also, many Iraqi building complexes often took days to get > permission to inspect or were flatly denied until enough pressure was place on > them. All in all, Saddam sure made it look as though he were playing a shell > game. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
