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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

U.N.'s Blix: War wasn't justified
Ex-arms inspection chief likens Bush team to 'witch hunters'

By SAM SKOLNIK
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, castigated the Bush administration in a Seattle speech last night, saying its zeal to go to war despite a lack of credible evidence of weapons of mass destruction made it "rather like the witch hunters of previous centuries."

Blix said President Bush and his top advisers willfully disregarded mounting evidence that such weapons no longer existed in Iraq.

"Was it a war of necessity? In my view, no," Blix said to a capacity crowd at the University of Washington's Hogness Auditorium. "It's hard to see that a war debated for months could be a war of necessity."

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