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To: DrLiberty
What we really know, as opposed to all these bozos who get on this forum and get emotional about the subject is this:

You included?

You fall for the "former marine" business, like that precludes him from being a nut. In fact, this is an important point to understand why he turned.

He was upset with the way inspections were going. I found him persuasive in this regard. But so what? That was 1998 - why did he do a 180 on whether Saddam had MWD or not? The two are not logically dependent on each other.

The whole "spying" thing is nonsense - pretextual agitprop created by Saddam's people to interfere with inspections. Of course they were trying to make a case against Saddam - isn't it obvious he was hiding something? And assume there was "spying." What would that fact have to do with the fact that Ritter did a 180 on the existence of MWD and Saddam's capacity (not to mention will) to increase that capacity? Answer = nothing.

All Saddam's smoke and mirrors. It's a joke anyway that a team of inspectors could find everything in a country the size of Texas.

166 posted on 09/12/2002 11:43:29 AM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
The spying charge amazes me. If we trusted Saddam there'd be no reason for inspections. If we don't trust him, we have to dig around looking for what he's hiding. Of course we're spying. That's what inspection is.
177 posted on 09/12/2002 11:54:05 AM PDT by js1138
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