Teflon Tony

In a story that seems to have gone unreported largely in the Western media Hans Blix has made a damning statement on Bush and Blair’s Iraq war.

Blix, the former head of the UN weapons inspectors tasked with finding the non-existent WMDs, said that in his view the war on Iraq was illegal and that Blair and Bush had “misled themselves and then they misled the public” about the reason for the war.

He also revealed the bizzare fact that he has NOT been requested to attend as a witness in the ongoing Chilcot Whitewash, sorry Inquiry. If true this is completely unacceptable. Blix was the man on the ground in Iraq and while it’s nice to hear about the cosy meetings in Texas behind closed doors and the political machinations that led to the invasion, it remains a fact that the stated reason for invasion was that Saddam had WMDs. Blix’s team found nothing in the run-up to the invasion, nor were such weapons found afterwards which means if Chilcot is to be taken seriously he MUST call Blix.

Blix also stated that “They [Bush and Blair] eventually had so much military in the Gulf that they felt they had to invade”.

Not sure that is a legal basis to invade a sovereign state.