Blix on his last day of work.

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From the Reuters feed at Yahoo:

"Well we still don't exclude that they can find things but the longer time passes, the less possibility perhaps," said Blix, executive chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).

"But I think we were vindicated in the prudence that we showed. We consistently maintained that unaccounted for is not the same thing as saying things exist. They might exist, they might not exist and I think everything shows that that was wise," he said.

Blix believes Iraq may have destroyed most of its dangerous weapons (note that this doesn't say when -- hal) but questions why Saddam Hussein did not produce data showing he had disarmed.

He speculated that Saddam might have wanted to create the mystique that he still had weapons of mass destruction -- on the theory that big boys like big toys.

Or, as I've said, because he wanted to keep the Iranians guessing.

But, all in all, remarkably close to what I've been writing here.