Malapropisms aside, do I think he was the right man for the job? - Given his performance on the job, compared to the authority he was given, no I don't. He bent over backwards to be conciliatory towards the Iraqi Regime, Saddam viewed that as a weakness and thought he could finnesse his way past this team of inspectors as he had done previously, with UNSCOM.

Where on earth did I ever say Dr. Hans Blix was the UNSC. He was however "their man" with regard to the activities of UNSCOM - and he was given authority to implement the monitoring and verification programme on behalf of the United Nations Security Council.

1441, clearly stated that non-compliance with it's terms and conditions would be regarded as a "material breach" of that resolution, and that "serious consequences" would result from any "material breach". There were five such breaches in the time UNMOVIC operated in Iraq under the direction of Dr. Blix.

The President of the United States of America was perfectly correct when he stated that the task of looking after America's safety, security and interests is not something any President would delegate to the United Nations. The United States of America had told the UN quite plainly, the state of affairs in Iraq are your responsibility, act to resolve the outstanding issues that concern us, or, we will act independently to put those issues beyond doubt. He was right to do so. I do not believe that the terms of one single resolution had been met by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, therefore they were in breach of the ceasefire agreement drawn up at Safwan in 1991.

MGOH - "The United Nations belongs to all of us." - I know of 800,000 Rwandans, who relinquished their shares a few years ago.

As for Resolution 1441, IMO, if the original wording of that resolution had been allowed to stand, there would have been no war, because in the original wording, even Saddam would have realised that he had no choice.