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That's right. Blame the French for anything because they repeatedly show how stupid this American president is.

No, Chirac can incriminate himself quite well. He's alienated most every Eastern European nation by his elitist attitude, and is ironically going to find himself overruled by the EU. Then there's that 75 billion Euro deal with the Iraquis ...

"All right, Monsieur Chirac. Perhaps we are poor. Perhaps we were not raised properly. We do not know about fine wine and the various directions of avant-garde art. But we do not repay those who have helped us and who continue to help us with ingratitude."
Neatkariga Rita Avize

You start that "back-room dealing, oil-grabbing, imperialist/extremist leader" crap once more, I'm going to have to ask you "Which one?!"

THE POT IS BLACK. THE KETTLE IS BLACK. Together we learn to read and write.

While we're on the subject of Hans Blix:

As director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1981 to 1997, he was in charge of overseeing inspections of the country's nuclear programme.

During that time, the Iraqis managed to hide an advanced nuclear weapons development programme from the IAEA. It was only discovered after the Gulf War in 1991.

Mr Blix has been keen to be seen as independent from Washington
Last year, the Pentagon ordered a CIA investigation into how the IAEA could have erred.

Mr Blix says the experience taught him something. "It's correct to say that the IAEA was fooled by the Iraqis," he said recently.

"He has a history of not being terribly aggressive," said Gary Milhollin, of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. "The Iraqis were given stars for good behavior, when in fact they were making bombs in the rooms next door to the ones the inspectors were going into."

My short googling has shown he's semi-competent at best.

I asked this after my first posting in this long, drawn out ragged thread, but what is your vision for the future? How would improve this world so that these things don't become an issue?