Hans Blix, the professional's professional, gets shrill

among the countless victims of the illegal and disastrous u.s. invasion of iraq is the extraordinarily solid, completely professional, and totally apolitical hans blix... so, when a man who spent as much time in saddam's iraq as he has says something like this, it cannot be dismissed...

Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix on Wednesday described the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "pure failure" that had left the country worse off than under the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein.

In unusually harsh comments to Danish newspaper Politiken, the diplomatic Swede said the U.S. government had ended up in a situation in which neither staying nor leaving Iraq were good options.

"Iraq is a pure failure," Blix was quoted as saying. "If the Americans pull out, there is a risk that they will leave a country in civil war. At the same time it doesn't seem that the United States can help to stabilize the situation by staying there."

yep... between a rock and a hard place... sounds about right to me...

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