IT would be understandable if Hans Blix feels he has failed in preventing the war in Iraq. Blix is certainly responsible for the American invasion there, but he feels that at the very least, the results of his task should have made the United States reconsider its plans to attack Iraq.

On February 14, Blix had announced to the UN Security Council: We did not find weapons of mass destruction. He then urged the US Government to rein in its war mach