> You know, Tom, given your previous record on > predictions in Iraq, do you think you might want to be > a little more careful with statements like the above? > Just a thought. I mean, if we do find them - and I > still think the odds are pretty good that we will - > what will you hate Bush foreign policy for then? >
You mean, you HOPE we will find them. I don't care either way. I'm glad Saddam is gone, and I didn't object to getting rid of him. On the other hand, we were obviously not prepared for what comes next, either in Iraq or Afghanistan. And if we DON'T find WMD - if it turns out they really did "cook" the intelligence - then what? If they fooled themselves - if they sincerely believed what turns out to be very thin evidence - that does not bode all that well for the future, you know. And if they fooled us - if they knew the evidence was thin but deliberately overstated the case as a pretext for an invasion - that doesn't bode very well either. I know this won't convince any of the huffing-and-puffing Mighty America true believers who dream of an Imperial USA bossing around the rest of the world (for its own good), but the argument that, even if we never find WMD - even if the Bushies really did know beforehand there weren't any - it's okay because we got rid of the big meanie Saddam (with no real preparation for what would replace him) - I don't buy that. If that's truly the reason we invaded - WHY NOT TELL THE TRUTH? Why lie about the WMD? I'm glad Saddam is gone. I've never said otherwise. I'm glad the war itself went smoothly, although the post-war is starting to turn very very nasty. But at what point do you admit there aren't any WMD? You see, Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Powell/Wolfowitz/Perle/etc. said before the invasion that they knew exactly where the WMD were and it was basically a matter of conquering the country and opening up the storage sites to prove to the world. So where are they? Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
