What weapons is it proven that he has?
Let me ask you some questions.
1) Is the United States of America able to account for every weapon in its inventory? Has it ever lost anything significant, a bomb, a briefcase full of intelligence, computers, anything ever make its way to a rightwing militia or mercenary group comprised of veterans, or a supply clerk selling under the table? Ever happen? Is it happening today?
2) Do you have complete faith in army, navy or air force paperwork? Does it ever get lost, misplaced or accidentally destroyed or mailed to the wrong place??
3) Did we lose some anthrax from a US military base?
4) How great of shape might Iraq's recordkeeping system be, given the militarism of the past 20 years. We brag constantly that we're take out the communications and we've been bombing the north and the south ever since the end of the first Gulf War. How good is Iraq's computer system? Does Iraq have the same degree of redundancy we might enjoy here in technological America?
I think Hans Blix is fully aware that this sort of thing happens, that it's happened in America, that it's happened in Russia and possibly could, of all places, even have happened in Iraq.
Point is you don't know ... I don't know ... we don't know ... and, based on Powell's presentation and the refutations which followed, the Bush Admministration doesn't know.
Now, this we do know. Iraq's population of 22 million is 42 percent children. You wanna bomb them on what might turn out to be lousy recordkeeping?
Why do I write this? Well, Iraq has turned over lots of documents. One is an air force document showing 19,000 juxtrapositioned against a declaratory document of 13,000. Both documents are Iraqi. The rub here is Bush thinks it's 19,000; Iraq claims it's 13,000 and Blix is trying to find out.
Don't you think, for the sake of those children, we should find out? |
