Yes, I think every inducation is that Hans Blix is not a fool and not a crook, and I wouldn't say that of all the characters in this extraordinary soap opera. (For example, Bush and Chirac, for a start.)

And I think he did a pretty good job, and that if he had had the full cooperation of the USA and the UK he could have done an even better one. However I believe that would not have suited the people whose priority was not getting rid of weaponry, but achieving a cooperative government in Iraq, and moving on to do the same elsewhere.

But then we're inside the loop, and it's all speculation on our part, either way. Whatever actual evidence we are shown so far has appeared pretty flawed and insubstantial. It comes down largely to who it is you trust, and we don't trust the same people.