The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it - Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Like a rectal chancre that just won’t heal, Hans Blix is back in the news.

Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has said that oil was one of the reasons for the US-led invasion of Iraq, a Swedish news agency reports.

“I did not think so at first. But the US is incredibly dependent on oil,” news agency TT quoted Blix as saying at a security seminar in Stockholm.

“They wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.”

Blix, who helped oversee the dismantling of Iraq’s weapons programs before the war, said another reason for the invasion was a need to move US troops from Saudi Arabia, TT reported.

Competition over oil is creating tension between the United States and China, Blix said, suggesting nuclear power as a more environmentally friendly source of energy.

“I believe the greatest threat in the long term is the greenhouse effect,” said Blix, who’s become a vocal critic of US leaders since he retired from the UN last year.

He defended the United Nations, despite recent scandals including allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program for Iraq.

“The criticism is, in my view, a revenge from American political circles for the defeat over Iraq,” Blix was quoted as saying.

Okay, let’s review.

1) The former head of the UN weapons inspections team believes that the greatest threat to humanity is global warming.  This is the guy to whom the US was supposed to entrust its national security.

2) The day that the Iraqis first elected president takes office, Blix is still spouting off the tired left-wing canard about war for oil.  Even if the war was about oil, does he think that the Iraq people would be better off under the Saddam regime?  He doesn’t seem to mention that, despite years of sanctions and limp-dicked threats from the impotent UN and the pussies on the UNSC who refused to enforce their own edicts, the only reason Saddam is not still in power is because the US and their allies Britain and Australia decided to go over there and do the job themselves.  If Blix had said something like, “I didn’t agree with the US motivation for the war, but what’s done is done, and I think it is incumbent on the civilized nations of the world to do whatever we can to defeat terrorism and build a prosperous, free, democratic Iraq.” But he didn’t say that.  He might as well have been holding up a “Bush = Hitler” sign.  What a dick.

3) Notice how deftly he glosses over the abject failures of the fundamental UN mission that have occurred lately.  Whether its troops firing on throngs of unarmed citizens, or the sex-for-cash scandals, or the kiddie porn, or the Iraqi Oil-for-food scandal, the fact is that the UN is nothing more than a corrupt, dysfunctional kleptocracy comprised of some of the most worthless shithole countries on the planet.  Yet this he can forgive and forget, because his love for the UN compels him to do so.

What a dick.