"Blix didn't say the inspections were working, he just asked for more time."

As I read him, and most people seem to read him - leaving aside the White House and Downing Street - what he was saying was that the signs were that they were working, but that they need more time to be sure that they are working and to complete the job.

And the distinct inpression, especially so far as the White House is concerned, is that they don't actually want the inpection process to work and for Saddam to be disarmed of any WMDs he has without a war, because that would deprive them of the justification for a war.

As the saying goes "They've shot our fox."