Hans Blix!!

No doubt, the man with the biggest "Can't say I didn't tell ya so" in recent history.

Mr. Blix had a presence on the dias that was calming and professorial as he logically and with humor described the way forward on the subject of non-proliferation. Aside from siting the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission's newest report with 60 action items, he focused on two points that he felt could not be ignored.

1) The whole truth must be laid on the table. He reminded the audience that NGOs play a large role in looking for, exposing and ensuring media coverage of the truth, especially when it comes to WMDs. He said that while there could be peace through truth, what we have now is war through untruth due to "fake-based" rather than the "faith-based" intellegence supposibly relied upon by those countries that initially invaded Iraq.

2) Arms control and disarmament has stagnated and must return to the front-burner. NGOs can play a big role in this by continuing to campaign against indescriminent weapons like cluster-bombs, small calliber arms, landmines etc. and nuclear weapons. To drive the point home he delivered the stats that there are 8 or 9 nations with nuclear capabilities and stockpiles totaling 27,000.

He continued with a discussion of the role the US weapon-sheild program has had in upping the ante in this global poker game and urged the US to leave outerspace peaceful by abandoning any starwars program that maybe in the works. You can't preach arms control while stepping up production.

Meanwhile, the US has left the Comprehensive Nuclear Testban Treaty in the dust... Long live multilateralism.