At 08:20 20-09-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote: >I should point out that inspectors have *never* before been used as >*detectives.*
Oh come on, do you really expect us to believe that? When the US gets a chance to send some people into Iraq to inspect military facilities (with Saddam Hussein's permission!), do you really believe the CIA would not make use of that opportunity? >Thus, all of these proposals for the return of inspectors are essential >proposals to have a certain group of people carry out a task for which >they have not been initially trained, for which they have little >experience in, and for which they are ill-suited. Then give them the training and equipment they need -- it is a lot cheaper than waging war (it costs less money, and inspectors are less likely to return in a body bag than soldiers). As for experience: the only way to gain experience with inspections is by carrying out those inspections. > >We know NK and PRC have WMD, and their leaders oversee brutal regimes, > >and yet the suspicion that Iraq may have WMD is sufficient to go in and > >blaze away? Hell, for all we know Pakistan is more of a threat than Iraq > >- we know they have the weapons and we don't know who will be in control > >of them by next year... > >If you think that Pakistan is as likely to attack the US and US interests >as Iraq, then you are simply not watching the same world that I am in. As self-declared defender of democracy, the US should definitely invade Pakistan. Pakistan has nuclear weapons, which it might very well use against India -- which happens to be one of the largest democracies in the world. Jeroen "Bush Administration Delenda Est" van Baardwijk __________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
