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To: GST who wrote (158138)	6/27/2003 10:19:43 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Care to document that? Even the article you posted doesn't actually dispute that the trailers are, in fact, mobile bioweapons labs. Of course, you chose to quote only the sensationalized lead to the story and not the actual substance of it, but then that's a common tactic for you. Hell, I'm surprised you even read beyond the headline to the first paragraph with your made-for-TV attention span and depth of thought. Here's what the State Department REALLY said: The State Department experts were "somewhat cautionary in terms of the kinds of the conclusions that they felt could be reached on that particular information at that moment (and) said there were other questions that need to be considered," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. The New York Times had earlier reported on a secret internal document in which the State Department declared it was too early to determine whether the trucks proved anything. The Central Intelligence Agency had reported to the White House that the trailers and a mobile laboratory truck seized near Baghdad in late April were "the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program." Boucher said the State Department experts did not contradict the CIA. "They did not dispute the conclusions that have been reached by the other agency analysts," he said. "They pointed out some questions that need to be looked at, issues that needed to be raised," Boucher said. "We've been assured by the CIA that those issues were considered, were looked at, and that they were confident and remain confident in their judgment that these are mobile biological weapons laboratories."