Blix: Faulty Iraq intelligence swayed Bush, Blair

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0304/07blix.html

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, both convinced they were battling evil, eagerly fell for faulty intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons, former chief U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix says in a new book.

In "Disarming Iraq: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction," Blix writes he once told Blair he needed more proof of the alleged Iraqi weapons, which were a major pretext for war. "I added that it would prove paradoxical and absurd if 250,000 troops were to invade Iraq and find very little," he writes. "Blair responded that the intelligence was clear that Saddam had reconstituted his weapons of mass destruction program. Blair clearly relied on the intelligence and was convinced."

Blix, who writes that he was vilified by the United States for not accepting the reports, said his inspectors had been misled by Western intelligence about alleged biological weapons labs in Iraq. "I am not aware of any other intelligence 'shared' with us that has been substantiated by credible evidence," Blix writes.
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[leesa]

1. Very misleading title. Note how they are blaming it on French

intelligence and not one word of the Bush Crime Family's Special Ops department set up to find bogus info.
I'll have to read the book because I'll bet Blix clearly said their was no intelligence proving anything except the bogus info out of the Pentagon. This article does some excellent Rovian spins.