--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/25/06 12:00:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[email protected]) > , MDixon6569@, MDi > > > > > > In a message dated 6/25/06 10:53:56 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > jstein@ 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.http://newhttp://newshttp://news.http://news_ > (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. > > Quite frankly I don't think the Bush administration trusted Blix to be able > to find anything and since Blix notified the Iraqi's in advance of which > buildings and sites he was going to, that gave the Iraqis the opportunity to > move things or sanitize the site before he got there. Obviously the Pentagon > wasn't going to tip off the Iraqis via Hans Blix with ever suspected site so > they could be cleaned up before inspection.
Oh, please, M. When are you going to wake up and smell the coffee? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/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/
