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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (101264)	6/12/2003 7:03:48 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "Hmmm... That's not the impression I've had from your postings. Or else I wouldn't have bothered to respond at all.." None of my posts showed that I pretended to "know exactly what happened to Iraq's WMDs". Instead, all they show is that I believe that they had been destroyed, except for the inevitable few stragglers, by 2002. Re: "But neither is there any logical reason that Saddam's folks would keep two separate tallies on their inventory unless they were trying to hide something." Uh, who are you preaching to? I know that Saddam kept two separate tallies of WMDs back in the late 1990s. But you don't have a single stick of evidence that proves that Iraq was still doing that in 2003. Re: "We can just let this discussion drop now (as the audience goes wild in a display of mass approval.. yawn)" We could, but the problem is that the rest of the world won't. Bush's credibility is just as shot as yours. The doctrine of "preemption" based on secret (disputed) intelligence is over. This is just like the Vietnam war, in a certain way. Long after the end of the hopeless war, conservatives were still yammering about how "winnable" it was. Okay, now you've got a war in Iraq. And you've got a Republican House and Senate (at least until early 2005). So win this war turns out to not be winnable, you will be forced to admit that all your bullshit about Vietnam being winnable was just as fallacious as your current bullshit about Iraq being winnable. But will that change you? Not a chance. In 2006, you'll be saying that "Iraq was winnable", but we were "stabbed in the back" by "the left wing elements", just like Hitler was saying about WW1 in the 1930s. -- Carl