Do not underestimate the American people. Here's the bottom line that the NYT cannot get around. They're claiming that this info would be extremely dangerous in Iran's hands. That means they are tacitly admitting that the same info was equally dangerous in Saddam's hands, where it would still be, YEARS after we deposed Saddam had we not taken him out.
Shocker admission paragraph stricken from article?
Has anyone read today's story from the NYTimes? That paragraph we are quoting IS NOT in the article. It's either been removed, re-written or was taken from somewhere else.
Check it out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-documents.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5094&en=d6e60f288e881789&hp&ex=1162616400&partner=homepage
Nevermind - I found it on this linked article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ei=5065&en=9b92b000e0a064e6&ex=1163134800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
"Do not underestimate the American people. Here's the bottom line that the NYT cannot get around. They're claiming that this info would be extremely dangerous in Iran's hands. That means they are tacitly admitting that the same info was equally dangerous in Saddam's hands, where it would still be, YEARS after we deposed Saddam had we not taken him out."
Yes, but if you follow that line of reasoning through, the result would appear to be miles away from a net political positive. That this information was dangerous enough to warrant expending troops and treasure to remove the possibility that Saddam might share it with rogue regimes… and that once we had it safely in our possession, vindicating the sacrifices required to secure it, we released it onto the internet and into the public domain?...
It seems to me it will be far better for our side if this turns out much ado about nothing – that the alleged dangerous documents were mostly benign and not a serious breach of nuclear secrets.