Judy Miller: Hans Blix Bears More Responsibility For The Iraq War Than I Do

[Judi Lynn]

Judy Miller: Hans Blix Bears More Responsibility For The Iraq War Than I Do

By Steve M.
4/04/15 7:59pm

The Wall Street Journal has published Judith Miller's defense of her Iraq War writings, in which she specifically denies responsibility for helping lead America into that war. There are others far more qualified than I am to pick apart what she's written in the Journal (and what will appear in Miller's book The Story, from which the Journal piece is excerpted). I'll limit myself to this:

Another widespread fallacy is that such neoconservatives as Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz strong-armed an inexperienced president into taking the country to war. President Bush, as he himself famously asserted, was the “decider.” One could argue, however, that Hans Blix, the former chief of the international weapons inspectors, bears some responsibility. Though he personally opposed an invasion, Mr. Blix told the U.N. in January 2003 that despite America’s ultimatum, Saddam was still not complying fully with his U.N. pledges. In February, he said “many proscribed weapons and items,” including 1,000 tons of chemical agent, were still “not accounted for.”

Did Blix say in January 2003 that Iraq wasn't fully compliant? Yes, he did. You can read the January 27, 2003, report here. Though please note that Blix says that Iraq was largely cooperative with regard to process:

Iraq has on the whole cooperated rather well so far with UNMOVIC in this field. The most important point to make is that access has been provided to all sites we have wanted to inspect and with one exception it has been prompt. We have further had great help in building up the infrastructure of our office in Baghdad and the field office in Mosul. Arrangements and services for our plane and our helicopters have been good. The environment has been workable.

Our inspections have included universities, military bases, presidential sites and private residences. Inspections have also taken place on Fridays, the Muslim day of rest, on Christmas day and New Years day. These inspections have been conducted in the same manner as all other inspections.

More:
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/judy-miller-hans-blix-bears-more

[deathrind]

1. There is not enough...

Water in the Ocean to wash away the responsibility she owns for her part in the run up to the conflict.

[Xipe Totec]

2. For all the water in the ocean

Can never turn the swan’s black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

- Aaron the Moor
Titus Andronicus, Scene II

[deathrind]

3. Nice

[PoliticAverse]

4. DU needs a 'Bad Reads' Forum. n/t

[leveymg]

5. We would again be going through this agony of splitting hairs if we had someone less than Obama in

the White House. Spare us the revisionist finger pointing Judy, and just go back into the dust heap of history.

[Hoyt]

6. I remember Blix literally crying and begging george war bush not to bomb Iraq over nonexistent WMDs.

[Warpy]

7. Still self serving, still a filthy liar

Some people are incapable of changing for the better.

[still_one]

8. Her new book and murdock's WSJ is trying to rewrite history. I suspect they will push the myth that

it was actually everyone else's fault instead of theirs.

She also went on and blamed Saddam Hussein for giving mixed messages, which is more bullshit of those responsible for pushing us into the invasion of Iraq, because either they were LAZY and didn't do their job, they had another agenda, or both

I think her current agenda is all to clear from Wikipedia:

"Miller was later involved in the Plame Affair, in which the status of Valerie Plame as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency became widely known. When asked to name her sources, Miller invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the CIA leak. Miller retired from her job at the New York Times in November 2005. Later, she was a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[6] On December 29, 2010, numerous media outlets reported that she had signed on as a contributing writer to the conservative magazine Newsmax.[7][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

[KoKo]

12. Recommend Read.....

[Octafish]

9. Steno Judy was among the last to hear from Dr. David Clark, RIP.

Guess he was just another victim of The Story.

PS: Thanks, Judi Lynn!

[Gothmog]

10. Miller is still lying

This lady is not a journalist and no one should pay attention to her

[Jefferson23]

11. She has no shame, probably never will: 2006 Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq

Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, Curveball. Recalling how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion.

—By Jonathan Stein and Tim Dickinson

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline





K&R