Dr Frank Fan, do you remember arguing with this individual "DevSix"? It seems like DevSix's propaganda efforts are not an isolated issue.
I read your exchanges in this thread:
"NOT-BREAKING - A senior Syrian journalist reports Iraq’s WMD located in three Syrian sites. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335625/posts
I am wondering your thoughts after reading some of the material I have presented in this thread, and particularly, his responses?
-All physical objects leave something called "residuals" wherever they are, which can't be gotten rid of, ever.
-Our military has engaged in "complex hex operations" in Iraq. (Not just "hex operations", mind you, but complex ones.)
-They've found NO WMDs or "residuals" (except for the 50-something shells mentioned in Duelfer report, etc., and all other stuff which DevSix conveniently ignores...)
-Therefore, Iraq had no WMDs. (Or, no "stockpiles", or no "large stockpiles", or "not as much as Bush thought", depending on where the goalposts need to be placed....)
-Except for the WMDs which we know, and DevSix admits, Iraq had prior to 1991 or so, whose "residuals" did apparently magically vanish somehow, by a process which evidently cannot be repeated ever again.
That about sums it up, I think.
However, I do not share your opinion that DevSix is a "troll". I think he's sincere. (Sincerely misguided.)
I do think that argument is pointless with him (or with anyone committed to the "No WMDs" line). The only thing it might accomplish is having a moderator tell you to cease & desist. Of course, that happened to him, not me, as a result of our exchange. Or so he said when he bowed out.