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If I Ever Meet Ari Fleischer, I will Punch Him in the Face

The White House expressed confidence Tuesday that coalition forces would locate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction despite comments from chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix that the United States had attempted to discredit his team in the days leading up to the war.

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Fleischer responded to statements made by Blix during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp., that in the days leading up the war the United States seized on his alleged failure to include details of a drone and cluster bomb found in Iraq in his oral presentations to the U.N. Security Council.

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"I think it's unfortunate if Hans Blix would in any way criticize the United States at this juncture. The United States is working with Iraqis to build a new country for them. And I think that would just be unfortunate if his position today is to criticize the United States," Fleischer said.

So it's unfortunate "if Hans Blix would in any way criticize the United States at this juncture?" I can't emphasize how much I want to chokeslam Ari Fleischer right now. If Blix weren't the gentleman that he is, there would have been a lot more criticism heading towards the White House, who had been trying to undermine his job since Day 1. Bush and Crew had made the decision to invade Iraq a long time ago, well before Bush even took office. To them, Hans Blix, weapons inspections, and the whole idea of "international consensus," were all just nuisances.

Fuck I am angry today.

UPI Article

Posted by mike at April 22, 2003 05:10 PM