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LSAT Beat the price increase! The price of the # 1 LSAT course will go up $100 on May 1, 2004. Lock in the current price. Enroll today! 1-800-KAP-TEST kaptest.com/lsat Test Prep and Admissions •LSAT is a registered trademark of the Law School Admission Council. Monday, April 26, 2004 HE SlovacetfSausages (while Supplies last! Spin-A-Thon Step and Cardio Ball ' C a r d i o Water :* TEXAS EC Blix Continued from page 1 Blix said neither England nor the United States can justify armed action on Iraq as a pre emptive strike against an immi nent Iraqi-anned attack. “The main justification that was presented for the war, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, was without convic tion,” he said. “The search through the nation was success ful, but the diagnosis was wrong. Saddam was dangerous to his own people, but not to Kuwait and certainly not an immediate danger to his neigh bors and the rest of the world.” Blix said inspectors performed 7(X) inspections and found debris, but no “smoking guns” such as chemical and biological weapons. He said they did find chemical warheads, which they found out later were left over from the past. Blix said evidence found by the weapons inspectors was accu rate and not at all flawed. He said Iraq was used as a laboratory for new weapons inspection technol ogy, including metal sampling and ground penetrating radar. Comparing the United Stales and England to witch hunters, Blix said that the leaders were so convinced that Iraq had WMDs, that they doubted the inspector’s findings. “Indeed the U.S. and U.K. leadership were so convinced of the weapons of mass destruction that they just couldn’t imagine they weren’t there," he said. "They were more like the witch hunters of past centuries. They were absolutely convinced about the existence of witches and the evidence does not have to be all that strong. You will take it.” Blix said that even when he first entered Iraq, he believed North Korea criticizes U.S. plans SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea accused Washington of preparing an attack, citing the Work o batiJ Iraq had WMDs, but found out that was not true. “1 might confess in the autumn of 2002,1 myself had my gut feel ings that there were weapons of mass destruction,” he said. However, Blix said the deter mination to go to war grew stronger despite the poor evidence because the momentum for war, which had been building up since sum mer 2002, was too strong to slow down. Blix said the govern ments advocat ing action against Iraq were aware of inspectors’ reports that there was no WMDs, yet decided to 4 4 . Dr. Blix is a true warrior who never compromised his beliefs, held firm to his assessments and fought hard for the principles of peace. move forward regardless. “The governments taking that armed action were putting excla mation marks where there should have been question marks.” he said. Blix said Saddam and the Iraqis were wary of an inspec tion and acted as though they had WMDs because they wanted to inspire fear with other Arab nations and they were worried that the U.N. inspectors would pass information along to U.S. and British intelligence of which Iraqi sites to bomb. However. Blix said. Iraq fully complied with inspectors, and now they know it is because they had no WMDs to hide. Blix said Ik* wishes the United States anti England would have used a policy of containment with Iraqis as w ell as obtained approval from the U.N. Security Council. “The policy of containment had worked in the period of 1991, 1998 and 2002,” he said. “ The presence of inspections, the sanctions and outside military pressure had worked. Saddam had been placed and kept in his box.” Blix said that the world can learn from • his experience for the future. “We could learn about the relevance of the security council, we could leant about the scope of the right of self defense under the U.N. structure, about the role of the policy of containment and about the role of international inspec tions.” Blix said. Joe Brown, KBTX anchor, who introduced Blix, said former U.N. weapons Archery Continued from page I — Joe Brown KBTX anchor the inspector is a great authority on the events leading up to war with Iraq. Brown said that throughout everything, Blix kept a dogged determination to his duty of weapons inspection in Iraq. “Dr. Blix is a true warrior who never compromised his beliefs, held firm to his assess ments and fought hard for the principles of peace.” Brown said. Dan Clinton, Class of 1952 drove in from Houston just to hear Blix’s speech. Clinton said Ik* is highly interested in world affairs and that Blix’s speech was both interesting and informative. “I think that he confidently showed that wc will not find WMDs, and we need to forget about that and move toward democracy in Iraq.” Clinton said. Eissinger said BynJ A&M to win the Sears[ij award that goes to they wdth the greatest acfej among all NCAA-spiJ sports. Currently archenj sponsored by the NCA.i “It’s a business,” tJ said. “(Byrne) wants toJ Sears Cup, and archery J NCAA Championship."! The archery propirIR been successful initsi-H ry. Senior Mary Zorn ■ reigning compound wr!; H pion, U.S. compound c* and three-time outdoor, ■ 1 compound champion.Z-l mei is the first femalearchen®ati break the 1,400-point y In winning her fiii j world championship, fe A&M junior Amber Di; ilie finals by two poirs and Dawson teamed Coloradoan Aya LaBriei the world team goldmsi the United States is breaking the world reca Eissinger said allot coaches went on a ret, lonls Ido. jjni his ry jcke Ion |ov llit. 1 nun Ise NEWS IN BRIEF U.S. military's plans to move from an outpost along the tense Korean border this year. Pyongyang also warned that it would review parts of the armistice that ended the Korean War five decades ago because of the U.S. plans. The North s army "will compre hensively examine" sections in the armistice that deal with secu rity and communications in Panmunjom. the spokesman said. year and came upwia statement represeniin^®2 “Nowhere does ii sAvoi NCAA chatnpioDsl^No Eissinger said. 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