Who'da thunk it

Wednesday, 17th February 2010

Hold the front page. Hans Blix has found something good to say about the removal of Saddam Hussein. He told Der Spiegel:

I don't rule out the possibility that Iran wants nuclear weapons, but I find the probability higher that the political leadership is divided over the issue. Merely the ability to enrich uranium already serves as a deterrent, and for some in the regime it might even be sufficient. If there is a desire to have the bomb, it certainly goes back to the 1980s and the threat coming from the Iraqi nuclear program at the time. But Iraq collapsed in 1991 and again in 2003, and if there is anything that makes me optimistic today, it is the notion that Iran, following the disarmament of Iraq, no longer has a security-related reason to acquire nuclear weapons [my emphasis].

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Major Plonquer

February 18th, 2010 1:20am

I think I should be allowed to develop nuclear weapons to protect myself from Mrs Ina McLaughlin's (of Troon) husband. I've been covetting her ass for the last ten years and her husband's just found out about it.

Surely the liberal international community will see my point, take my side and allow me to continue my nuclear ambitions rather than becoming totally repressed like Iran?

Barry Larking

February 18th, 2010 8:53am

Before he passed away recently, Captain Hector Bonzo admitted his ship The General Belgrano was seeking to attack the British task force in co-ordination with another battle group. He had taken up a loiter position when sunk by H.M.S. Conqueror.

Blix's statement reminds me of that time honoured practice of "turning Queen's Evidence". The first of many such instances I believe. Why does it take so long?

Lee Jakeman

February 19th, 2010 1:20am

Hans Blix has produced a "rational" argument. But rational arguments don't cut any ice with irrational people.

To understand Iran's behaviour, we have to consider the JEWISH threat to Iran's security.

Even when they were unarmed and stateless, the Jews were deemed to be a big enough "threat" to Germany's security to warrant their extermination.

Now, with their own state and heavily armed, the Jews are an even bigger "threat" than they were in Hitler's day.

Hence Iran's "need" for nuclear weapons.

Why do I get the horrible feeling that Holocaust 2, the sequel to Holocaust, is about to be released?

stephen maybery

February 19th, 2010 10:54am

There is nothing more threatening to the peace of the world than the post war western liberal conscience, like the monkey of fable it neither sees nor hears evil in anyone, except from those who are of the West. The Iranians are like the Chinese Boxers, in their fanaticism they think that bullets will not harm them, and that they will ultimately be victorious. The Second World War could have been avoided had Britain exercised it's power in the early days of Hitler's ascendency, unless America flexes it's muscles vis-a-vis Iran instead of posturing in Afghanistan then the World is in for a very bumpy ride indeed.

Barrie

February 20th, 2010 8:05am

Blinkered Blix is typical of his superior EU-castrated kind. If a country actually helped save the world or them [eg Britain and the USA in the 20thC] he gives an occasional glance towards them while standing tall on the Hypocrisy-Wise-after-the-Event Moral High Ground.
Israel did not consult all the Blixes in the UN before it removed Saddam's nuclear plant, did it?

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Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and is a panellist on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze. Her most recent book is 'The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power', published by Encounter.

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