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   From: chillicothe@briar.org   
      
   Prime Minister Tony Blair's government “dramatized” some of its prewar   
   evidence about the threat posed by Iraq, former chief U.N. weapons   
   inspector Hans Blix said Sunday.   
      
   On the British Broadcasting Corp.'s “Breakfast with Frost” program,   
   Blix said it was unclear what was meant by the claim in a September   
   2002 intelligence dossier that Iraq could deploy some weapons of mass   
   destruction on 45 minutes' notice.   
      
   “The intention was to dramatize it just as the vendors of some   
   merchandise are trying to increase and exaggerate the importance of   
   what they have,” he said. “From politicians, from our leaders in the   
   Western world, I think we expect more than that. A bit more   
   sincerity.”   
      
   Blix, whose team of U.N. inspectors did not make any significant   
   weapons finds during months of searching Iraq before the war, said it   
   was clear now that there were no weapons of mass destruction there   
   before the U.S.-led invasion.   
      
   Blix said Western intelligence agencies had been too willing to   
   believe questionable information from Iraqi defectors.   
      
   It is very obvious that Blair and Bush and Rumsfeld and Powell all   
   wanted to attack Iraq under the premise of fighting terrorism when, in   
   fact, there was no terrorist connection there at the time.  However,   
   since the U.S.-les "pre-emptive" war has begun many terrorists have   
   been drawn to Iraq to fight against the U.S.   
      
   Bush's foreign policy has been a disaster that had made America less   
   safe rather than more safe.   
      
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