[oceanview]

Libya cannot cover its butt by "outing" themselves a week before the event takes place. If a Libyan WMD hits the US, Libya is gone, this last minute confession isn't going to save them. Can you imagine that Bush would go to a microphone trumpeting this Libya thing, only to have a Libyan WMD passed to AQ hit the US a week later? it doesn't wash.

[Peach]

That's a very good point. We need the analytical skills of all Freepers. Mine are definitely at a low ebb right now, being overwhelmed with social and family obligations. But those common, everyday things are what keep us all sane and feeding good food to people is what keeps us healthy.

[bvw]

It washes because Bush has to keep the dialogue open -- if he doen't praise Libya, they become truculent, evasive. (If the case is as we are specualting -- that Libya is trying to stey out of a crossfire.)

[rintense]

It washes if Libya doesn't tell the US and UK of the WMD it passes along. Try this scenario: Libya agrees to dismantle the WMD program, which has been 8 months in the making. In that time, Libya, still in contact with terrorists, knows of their intent. In an attempt to 'make good' with the world community, knowing what lies ahead, Libya agrees to dismantle the WMD program. Attack occurs and weapons are traced back to Libya. That agreement basically binds the US and UK from attacking Libya, at least in the eyes of that fool Qaddafi and the UN. Of course, I truly believe that Dubya would blast them from the face of the earth. But for an unpredictable guy like Qaddafi who lost family in the attack Reagan ordered- this may just be revenge.

Anything is possible, especially with kooky Muslim leaders.

[JustPiper]

Excellent view ocean ;)

[FairOpinion]

"Libya cannot cover its butt by "outing" themselves a week before the event takes place."

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That's another thing, which leads one to think that Libya's info is accurate and they told us about some AQ plot -- everything they know, which was enough for confirmation of what we already knew and suspected, and enough for us to raise the threat level and furiously search for the terrorists with the WMD on US soil.