Hans Blix Calls Iraq War "Pure Failure"
October 27, 2006 5:03 p.m. EST
Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer
(AHN)-Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix described the United States-led invasion of Iraq as a "pure failure"
that had left the country worse off than under the rule of Saddam Hussein.
Speaking to Danish newspaper Politiken, Blix said the US government had ended up in a situation in which neither staying nor leaving Iraq were good options, telling the paper, "Iraq is a pure failure. 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."
Blix also claims the situation would have been better if the war had not taken place, saying, "Saddam would still have been sitting in office. Okay, that is negative and it would not have been joyful for the Iraqi people. But what we have gotten is undoubtedly worse."
Blix, who came under heavy scrutiny from Washington when he urged US President George Bush to allow the weapons inspectors to continue inspections and avoid possible war, led the UN inspectors that searched for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the US-led invasion in 2003.
Ultimately a US-led coalition invaded Iraq and no such weapons were found.
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