[section9]

TGS is gonna be wiping a lot of egg off of his face in two weeks. After he pulls his foot out of his mouth...

No, not necessarily. It is not unreasonable to suppose that Saddam might have invested some money and time in a biowar deterrent planted in the United States. Were that so, however, we would have found out about it through defectors some time ago, and you would not have seen Bush taking the political risk to ramp up for war only to have to go through a humiliating climbdown. Or, Bush might have figured that whatever the risk, 'tis better to act now than later when the odds might be longer.

What all this tells me is that even if Saddam invested time and money in that deterrent, it has not worked.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Trust but Verify]

At the top of this hour, a local radio station in Milwaukee broadcast a breaking news story that said:

US intelligence agencies say they have authenticated a new message from bin laden in which he orders all muslims to kill Americans and Jews everywhere 'in secret ways'. I have looked everywhere and not found any mention of this story anywhere else.

Has anyone else heard this? They did not cite another news source, so who knows where they got it from.

[nina0113]

>>Bush might have figured that whatever the risk, 'tis better to act now than later when the odds might be longer.

What all this tells me is that even if Saddam invested time and money in that deterrent, it has not worked. <<

There was something about the way he said "America will not be blackmailed" in the SOTU address that I REALLY didn't like. So I did all our supplies a couple of weeks ago - I didn't bother with the plastic, I live in the country.