Could this guy just keep
Could this guy just keep his mouth shut about things he has no authority on?
The invasion of Iraq was planned a long time in advance, and the United States and Britain are not primarily concerned with finding any banned weapons of mass destruction, the chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said.This frickin' guy. He's NOT a politician (officially). He's an inspector. He has (had) one job: see if Iraq was in total compliance with the previous UN resolutions, specifically 687. And yet there goes his mouth, every chance he gets, talking smack about the US, injecting himself into the decision-making process in which he has no authority to be involved."There is evidence that this war was planned well in advance. Sometimes this raises doubts about their attitude to the (weapons) inspections," Blix told Spanish daily El Pais.
Yeah, yeah, I know he's just covering his ass and sucking up to whoever will grace him with his next paycheck, but still. This is just classless. This is twice now he's failed to find the WMD in Iraq, and it makes him look better if he says that the US had plans to invade anyway, and he's just a little Swede, what could he do about it?
He knows NOTHING about what the US planned against Iraq. (And incidentally, the Pentagon routinely draws up war plans, against anyone and everyone, for the sake of preparedness, so even if we did have war plans against Iraq (and I'm sure we did), that doesn't mean we had any imminent intention of using them.) The fact that we even went to the UN and patiently tried to convince the rest of the world of our position -- and no-one seriously doubted that Iraq was in breach, just that we didn't have the right to enforce the previous resolutions "unilaterally", neverminding the fact that the UN wouldn't get off its ass and do something about it -- that fact says a lot about what the US "had planned". Anyone who argues that "the process" didn't run its course or have enough time to be effective is someone who likely has no concept of the word "deadline". If thirteen years wasn't enough for Blix, no time would have been enough.
Just think about that for a second. Thirteen years is half my life. New Kids on the Block was cool. Extreme was just about to come out with their second album (the best one, in my opinion). 21 Jump Street was still on the air. Give me a freaking break, Blix.
The truth of the matter is that the UN is a sprawling, one-world-government bureaucracy with a purpose. The purpose being to employ as many grad students from public affairs schools as possible. They sit, they gab, they drink Martinis with their diplomat friends and sniff loudly at anyone who displeases them, and we pay for it. They want us to pay more. I wouldn't be too upset if the building on First avenue was auctioned off to the highest bidder (probably it'll be Trump) and renovated with high-speed internet and bay windows for the new upscale residents. Turn that concrete plaza into a grassy park. It's over, it's done. It's irrelevant. That sound you hear emanating from Blix's gums is the sound of desperation -- that his whole life has been a failure, that the only way a man like him can make a living is through a government-appointed job paid for by Joe Average (the same guy he scoffs at when he hears about how the American Street supports their half-wit President on this matter) -- and he knows it. He knows what a waste he is, and you can bet everything you own that he will spend the rest of his able-bodied days doing everything he can to use his pull and influence to make sure that there are always institutions that sap off the people to support assholes like himself.
End rant! Have a good day!
Oh, speaking of rants, Bob has a great one. Go Bob!
Posted by Matt at April 9, 2003 2:17 PM
