It's a strange wonderful world

Oh, to live in the wonderful world of Dr. Strangeblix. The man actually still believes that the “inspections” were working. He still believes that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi thugocracy respect world opinion. He still thinks the UN Security Council will be of use after this debacle. He still believes that his motley little band of Keystone Kops will prove more effective than a quarter million armed inspectors who won’t take no for an answer.

I just can’t believe that he is still asserting that the inspections are working. He states that his teams have found no evidence of chemical or biological weapons (forget about those pictures of mobile bio-lab units that the Iraqis showed us). Don’t worry about those weapons, we haven’t found them. They might have them, but they won’t use them. We have inspected and they have no capacity to create weapons of mass destruction, but they can probably still make chemical and biological capable warheads and agents.

He also believes that they won’t have the will to use chemical or biological weapons because world opinion would turn against them. What would that do? Would the French quit providing surrender training for them? Would the French take a break from invading Central African countries long enough to give the always feared Gaullic stare of disapproval? Would the Germans cluck at them? Or would there be the ultimate condemnation – a UN resolution expressing concern about the use of chemical or biological weapons?

Does Dr. Strangeblix really think that we’re going to believe that the inspections were working given his current statements? Does he think that we are going to buy into the success of the inspection regime just because the report of “items of concern” went from 120 + pages down to 83 in a week? He probably just removed the denunciations of the United States and his world-famous Swedish Meatball recipes. 83 pages is still 83 too many after 12 years.

I have got to find me a better fantasy world to live in.