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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (96288)	4/25/2003 7:17:15 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>How will the damage be undone if he is never proven guilty?<< I assume that your argument is that the documents from Saddam's regime discussing payments to Galloway are not "proof." If your wife finds you screwing her best friend, will you argue that you haven't been proven guilty? What does it take?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (96288)	4/25/2003 8:29:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

agree with you that getting to the truth takes time. But surely you can see that the Iraqi boogieman did not live up to the hype and that there is no reason why Blix should have been denied the few more weeks which he had asked for. What I can see is that the Ba'athists destroyed evidence as the coalition armies approached, just as the Nazis did. But you can never destroy it all, or destroy all the relevant records, or dig up everything you had hidden. It will be found. The amiable Mr. Blix would never have found anything if he'd been given an extra five years. He depended on regime cooperation, and he wasn't getting any, apart from a fig leaf of process cooperation. As far as I can see, he wasn't trying that hard either.