Blix I know about of course, a good source. But he did work for the UN, where quite a few of the parts still are taken over by dictators not criticising each ot

Blix I know about of course, a good source. But he did work for the UN, where quite a few of the parts still are taken over by dictators not criticising each others. (See UNHRC on Wikipedia, for instance. It is the less bad successor of what existed 2001...) The other claims... well, they couldn't know. The real information was (is?) stamped secret. Downing Street wouldn't release that. >>Also, not that the didn't have to plant evidence of WMDs in Iraq after the invasion; people found out that there were no WMDs, found out about the Downing Street Memo, and yawned. The media didn't care; the US media barely reported on the Downing Street Memo. Uh, no. There is still credibility problems, e.g. recently regarding claims about chemical weapons in Syria. They had to send the UN team there; the claims about listening in to Syrian army communications, etc were not accepted. I am willing to believe the Bush administration didn't care if they kneecapped the credibility of the next few president administrations. But pure incompetence do seem more likely.