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20
I have to say I admire Hans Blix, an honourable man, former rally car driver and former UN weapons inspector. Most people know him in the latter role, i remember when he came out in support of an evidence based approach when the war started. I wrote him a letter that day to say thanks to him for all his hard unpaid work he was putting into government and UN lobbying against the illegal war.
It’s five years on and Blix is still fighting…
Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector, has slammed the Iraq war as a “tragedy” and blamed it on leaders ignoring the facts.
Writing in British newspaper The Guardian on the five-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Mr Blix, who clashed with Washington in the run-up to the Iraq war, described the war as “a tragedy – for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for truth and human dignity.”
In the sub-headline to the comment piece, Mr Blix, who headed the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, wrote that responsibility for the war “must lie with those who ignored the facts five years ago”.
Blix slams Iraq war ‘tragedy’ | ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)