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2004-04-06 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Frank G 2004-04-06 1:46:45 PM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What he really meant to say:

"Itâs positive that Saddam and his bloody regime is gone, but when one weighs the costs ~~and ignore the benefits like the one I just mentioned~~, itâs clearly the negative aspects that dominate,"

Posted by Raj 2004-04-06 1:49:01 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-04-06 1:49:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 And when will he be addressing the Kurds on this issue? Does Kirkuk U. have a commencement ceremony?

I saw a stack of Blix' books prominently displayed at a local bookstore. I'm afraid that I may have inadvertently left a history of the US Marine Corps on top of the stack.

Posted by Matt 2004-04-06 2:20:35 PM|| 2004-04-06 2:20:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I expect to see Blixie at some downtown stoplight soon, with a squeegee and an "Ego severely damaged. Will interview for food." sign around his neck.

Posted by tu3031 2004-04-06 2:21:51 PM|| 2004-04-06 2:21:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Has it ever been proven that Blixie is a carbon-based life form? He seems to be from a different planet. I guess WW2 was too high a cost as well. Those Swedes..

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-06 2:53:28 PM|| 2004-04-06 2:53:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ooh-rah Matt. Too bad you couldn't of left a copy of the small wars manual on it as well.

As for Blix, I thought this guy was a weapons expert of some sort not a geopolitical super-strategist. So for his theories on de-stabilizing the region he can stfu.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-06 3:08:03 PM|| 2004-04-06 3:08:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I always wondered where he stood on the 'Oil for Palaces' investigation......

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-04-06 3:32:26 PM|| 2004-04-06 3:32:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Shaddup Blix!

Posted by Anonymous4049 2004-04-06 3:49:28 PM|| 2004-04-06 3:49:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 if i ever catch that blix creeping round my part of the country on his holidays i'll wring his fat little neck till he stops breating,nothing but a waste of precious oxygen.Fucking little swedish nonce!

Posted by Shep UK 2004-04-06 4:17:35 PM|| 2004-04-06 4:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The guy's a maroon. Here's my take on his comments:

Blix says: "The war has liberated the Iraqis from Saddam, but the costs have been too great."

What sort of misguided cost accounting goes into figuring that?

On average, Saddam was killing something like 3600 Iraqis a month, and brutalizing thousands more with torture, rape and imprisonment. By comparison, the best estimate for deaths since January of 2003, one given by Iraq Body count stands at a little over 10,000.

So by this measure, more than 40,000 people are alive who would not have been if Saddam had remained in power. (I won't even try to calculate how many rapes or incidents of torture have been avoided.)

Link

Posted by H.D. Miller 2004-04-06 5:13:42 PM|| [travellingshoes.blogspot.com] 2004-04-06 5:13:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I guess it's hard to keep from being bitter when you've been made both a laughingstock and irrelevant. About the only way Blix could keep working was by continuing to look for (but never find) Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction" while playing the role of "weapon of mass destraction". Bush blew him out of the water by destroying any need for distraction, and Blix has proven worthless for anything else. Hence, his bitterness. It's kind of hard to go back to being a worthless little leftist campus screecher (I won't dignify him by calling him a "professor") after you've been the center of worldwide attention, even if your main job was to NOT do your "main job". What a worthless piece of ambulatory swamp gas.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-06 10:33:24 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-06 10:33:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Rafael - I thought he was Swiss!

Posted by .com 2004-04-06 10:39:12 PM|| 2004-04-06 10:39:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 H.D. Miller, thank you for providing those numbers. I just had to disabuse someone of the notion that Iraq is worse off today than it was, over a year ago, when Saddam was in power.

I've tried to search for the exact source and cannot find it. If you have a direct link to J. Burns' NYT article, or any other with the numbers, I'd really appreciate it.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-08 12:05:06 AM|| 2004-04-08 12:05:06 AM|| Front Page Top

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