To: kattracks
"We have the complete documentation, from design to all the other things," Lt. Gen. Amir al-Saadi told reporters in Baghdad. "We haven't reached the final assembly of a bomb nor tested it."
This fails the laugh test and ranks up there with the famous line, I smoked it but never inhaled.
23 posted on
12/09/2002 2:26:50 AM PST by
doosee
To: doosee; lavaroise; kattracks; Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit; steveegg; MeeknMing
"We have the complete documentation, from design to all the other things," Lt. Gen. Amir al-Saadi told reporters in Baghdad. "We haven't reached the final assembly of a bomb nor tested it."
It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is. In this case, when does a weapon become a weapon?
- When you have all the parts?
- When you assemble all the parts into a warhead?
- When you put the warhead on a delivery vehicle?
- When failsafe's are removed?
I can just see the UN lawyer fest debating if Iraq is in material breech if it hasn't actually armed its warheads.
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