From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 12:29:19 MDT
> John,
>There is a report on Drudge this morning saying the Army WMD detection
> team is leaving Iraq without having found any evidence of WMDs. Take a
>look and tell me if I have it wrong.
The article is at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40212-2003May10.html
and yes, it looks to me like they're almost ready to through in the towel
and admit that the intelligence reports about a massive Iraqi WMD program
were largely fiction. Oops. The scary thing is that next time when they
really do have accurate reports about somebody developing WMD
nobody will believe them. Oh well, at least we got rid of a brutal dictator
and that's a good thing, unless it's replaced by a theocracy or some other
horror.
Not to end on a totally dark note, the war might give a long term boost to
the world's economy, see:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030519-450939,00.html
Interesting quote:
"Iraq is the only country capable of flooding the world with cheap oil on
the scale of Saudi Arabia. [...] The average cost of bringing a barrel of
oil out of the ground in the USA is about $10. In Saudi Arabia, it's about
$2.50. And in Iraq, it's less than $1."
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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