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2024/12/25 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular

12/25

2003/9/25-26 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:10329 Activity:moderate

9/25 Hans Blix gets book deal. It was always about the money. It always
is. $500k to say, "We didn't find anything".
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/6859265.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
\_ C.R.E.A.M. baby.
\_ But he's been saying that all along. If someone wants to pay him,
why not? Besides, is he wrong? May I remind you:
STILL NO WMDS.
\_ What was found or not has zippo to do with this guy going on the
world stage solely to get a name for himself to sell his book
which is going to say what? What we already know?
\_ Solely to get a name for himself? Are you insane? He was
trying to stop a war. And at least one very powerful idiot
didn't listen to him, so now he's writing something that
history will be able to review.
\_ is this the point where I whine bc my response got deleted
and instead go "blah blah blah"?
\_ I see, so it's "free market! free market!" all the way, until
a non neo-conservative gets a small-time book deal? Just trying
to get the rules down, thanks.
\_ The free market has nothing to do with Blix camera hogging while
he was supposed to be working for the world's safety while he
was really just writing a book.
\_ There'd be nothing to write if Bush has listened to him.

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www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/6859265.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp -> www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/6859265.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp&1cPosted on Thu, Sep. Ex-UN Inspector Blix Gets Book Deal Associated Press NEW YORK - Hans Blix, the United Nations inspector who clashed often with the Bush administration over allegations of Iraqs possession of weapons of mass destruction, has a book deal. Pantheon hopes to publish Blixs book, currently untitled, in the spring of 2004. The core of the book will be the four months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, Pantheon editor Dan Frank said Thursday. It will give readers a clear sense of what the United States does and the ins and outs of diplomacy. Frank said Blix has written about a half to two-thirds of what should be a 250-300 page book. Financial terms were not disclosed, but a source close to the negotiations said that the deal was worth around $500,000, factoring in both domestic and foreign rights. Blix, who retired last summer, spent three years searching for Iraqi chemical, biological and ballistic missiles as head of the United States Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. Saddam Husseins alleged possession of banned weapons was the main justification the United States and Britain used for invading Iraq in March. In the weeks before the war, some United States officials strongly criticized Blixs failure to support the Bush administrations contention that Saddam had an active illegal weapons program. Months of searching in Iraq have produced no announced discoveries that would validate the bulk of the allegations that helped lead to the war. AP Wire and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.