#ma

If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors. ↗

— Hans Blix

#factors #impatience #maybe #military #military action

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people. ↗

— Hans Blix

#describe #honestly #i #i think #investigate

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror. ↗

— Hans Blix

#anthrax #biological #biological weapons #cause #dry

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different. ↗

— Hans Blix

#ceasefire #did #different #disarmament #forced

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. ↗

— Hans Blix

#intention #management

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction. ↗

— Hans Blix

#iranians #iraqis #mass #me #saudis

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions. ↗

— Jim Evans

#decisions #each #enables #evaluated #helps

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way. ↗

— Hans Blix

#big #convention #global #global warming #instances

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony. ↗

— Hans Blix

#bugs #cannot #carry #country #democratic