----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:01 PM Subject: Re: Bitter Fruit
> Dan wrote: > Alex wrote: > > >> Lying to the world was not the answer. Open minded people across the > >> world > > knew that there was no >weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. > > > > Let me focus on that point for one post. It is fair to make that > > statement now, with all the evidence that we have after the war. That > > statement was not true before the war. > > There was a pattern of lying about yellow cake uranium, about aluminum > tubes, about connections between al Qaida and Hussein and about many other > things if you care to dig deep enough. There was a pattern of interpreting the evidence in a manner that provided the greatest and most immediate risk. It was very consistent with the "wishful thinking" engineering I've encountered from time to time. At the time, there was enough information to see that Bush overstated his case, as I suggested at the time. But, this statement is quite different....any reasonable person at the time would know there were no WMD. That conclusion was no more likely, given the information available at the time, than Hussein being a couple of years away from a bomb. Remember, we later found out that Quadaffy (sp) was a couple of years away from having a bomb. As for the yellowcake, the most likely source of the British information was French intelligence. Now it is possible that the French government gamed the US, but I think they actually believed the bad data was good. Let me give a parallel. By showing that Al Gore exaggerates the risks and the evidence of global warming, you can show that global warming just doesn't exist. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
