RE: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 07:08:29 MDT

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    Mike Lorrey wrote,
    > Samantha, when will you learn to stop putting your foot in your mouth?
    > We are finding evidence every day, much of which is reported in the US
    > media. The defense department is taking samples and waiting for lab
    > confirmations before making any declarations, but finding a warehouse
    > full of barrels labeled "Mustard" and "Tabun" is a slight smoking gun.
    > Finding an underground lab on the same site that UN inspectors had
    > 'inspected' that has weapons grade plutonium in it, and finding a
    > military transport with a hermetic room for loading bio/chem payloads
    > into artillery shells is a bit of a smoking gun.

    True. But the converse also applies. Mike, when will you learn to stop
    putting your foot in your mouth? The U.S. has announced so many smoking
    guns that later didn't pan out, that I am not sure why anybody would listen
    to us anymore. Your next sentence makes a lot more sense for everybody:

    > Before shooting off at the mouth, I suggest you wait for a
    > comprehensive report from the DoD. I expect they intend to lay it all
    > out in one big report that will thoroughly discredit the UN as an
    > institution capable of weapons monitoring.

    In reality, there is ample evidence on both sides of this debate, and none
    of it is final yet. I can't blame anybody on /either/ side for believing as
    they do. We are getting so much propaganda, spin, false stories, and
    mistaken stories, that everybody on all sides are getting plenty of support
    for their beliefs. I really hope the U.S. does produce this final official
    report showing specific smoking guns. If we don't, we will never be trusted
    again.

    (And many people, even on this list, don't tend to trust big governments
    anyway. It really is a change to see people saying that we have to trust
    big government and that is wouldn't lie to us.) The U.S. has set up a lot
    of expectation for results, evidence and proof. I hope we don't fail to
    deliver or appear to have been lying to the entire world. This gambit of
    being the world's policeman will either go extremely well for the U.S.
    politically, or will go very badly. World opinion won't remain divided or
    on the fence indefinitely.

    --
    Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC
    <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
    


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