Hans Blix

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:18 am

Any thoughts or comments on this ?

edlington_j · Post by **edlington_j** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:38 am

Good for him.

Stick it to Bush and Blair. The biggest terrorists on the block.

smass · Post by **smass** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:44 am

Which block?

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:30 am

FWIW, to me Blix has always appeared to be an honorable, painstakingly conscientious, rather dull man who repeatedly ran up against flamboyant, lying powermongers: the archtypal consultant facing standard national rulers. I think his sense of pride was deeply hurt when members of Bush's cabinet and personal staff attacked his credibility, because Blix takes everything seriously, even the comments of politicians. Now he's got a chance to get a bit of his own back.

Will Bush respond? He smarter than that, but he's also a very vengeful little megalomaniac, who's been known to lash out in fury with all his official power at people who offend him personally: former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is under federal investigation for "unspecified crimes" because of his book on the Bush years. So we'll just have to wait for the next exciting episode.

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:33 am

Originally posted by fable
former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is under federal investigation for "unspecified crimes" because of his book on the Bush years.

What!? You got to be kidding! Hell, please tell me that this just happened to be a joke!

edlington_j · Post by **edlington_j** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:44 am

The world.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:55 am

Originally posted by Monolith
What!? You got to be kidding! Hell, please tell me that this just happened to be a joke!

Quoting from a national news story that ran in various newspapers on January 14th: "Within hours of O'Neill's appearance on CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday night promoting the book, reporters were being told that the former Alcoa chairman was under investigation for handing Suskind [his publisher] 19,000 purportedly "classified" documents.

"Yesterday, O'Neill said on NBC's "Today Show" that all of the documents in his possession were cleared with the Treasury general counsel's office as not being classified, and he vowed that he had done nothing illegal."

This is the first time that a political insider who has written a "kiss-and-tell" book has been dealt with in this manner. Such books go all the way back to the Johnson administration, but no previous US president has ever tried to use government intimidation as a means to stop the presses on such a book.

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:07 am

The world's sick...

smass · Post by **smass** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:04 am

You just figured that out?

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:05 am

Blix is good people. What he says is quite simply the truth. Unfashionable as it may be to some....