Former IAEA director ElBaradei engages in some post-war mea culpa for the IAEA's role in selling the "WMDs in Iraq" farce of a justification for the IRaq war:
The most dissatisfying moment of my life, of course, was when the Iraq war was launched. That hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives on the basis of fiction, not facts, makes me shudder. ....I should probably, before the Iraq war, have screamed and howled harder and louder to prevent people from misusing the information that was made available by us.Yes you "probably" should have done so. Indee, "probably" so.
But the most interesting part of his interview is this part:
QUESTION: How do you guarantee that a country is using nuclear power properly?ELBARADEI: We can provide as much guarantee as we have the legal authority, the resources and the technology to do so. If the international community wants to have ironclad inspection guarantees, they better give us the wherewithal.
Why is this interesting? Because ElBaradei seems to have no problem demanding Iran to do MORE than it is legally required by allowing "transparency" inspections that, according to the IAEA itself, "go well beyond" not only Iran's existing safeguard, but
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