Former chief U.N. weapons inspector likens runup to Iraq war to witch hunt

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix on Tuesday likened the runup to the war in Iraq to a witch hunt, and argued that the subsequent failure to find weapons of mass destruction would dent the public's faith in the U.S. and British governments.

''The governments were like the witch hunters of past centuries. They were so convinced that there were witches in Iraq that every black cat became proof of it,'' Blix said in Barcelona where he was honored by the United Nations Association of Spain.

''The tendency was to view any evidence in a more serious light than was the reality. It's clear that the Sept. 11 attack on the United States drove the analysis,'' he added.

The White House dismissed the criticism.

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Mr. Blix, the neo-cons have been drooling since 1991 to get Saddam's oil. 911 only gave them their anticipated event, to bullshit the people in to WMD submission. Only fools would have believed Saddam did not have WMD before the war, was their public mass dis-information manipulation. This is why, Kerry was for the war and against it.....as were 70% of those who are now against it today. Kerry is not a flip flopper, only an other human - who was duped by 5 years of neo-con mass dis-information manipulation.