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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (105487)	7/15/2003 4:51:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Actually Noel, the infamous "There's nukes in them thar hills" 16 word statement wasn't technically correct. For a start, it's suspicious that the number 16 apparently carries some weight. If it was 1000 words and untrue, then it would apparently be more serious. If it was 42 words we would know it's the truth. The truth about life, the universe and everything. 16 is such a good number. 2x2x2x2, 4x4, 2x8, 8+8, a square, a sweet sixteen, the number of pieces in chess [for each side], with a King George II as the center-piece but not centre-peace. The foaming at the mouth rabid Republican right got all in a tizz over Bill Clinton's single word 'is'. So it can't really be the small number of words, and that is another dishonesty. But leaving aside the mathematical proof that the statement was okay, the statement said the British had learned something about nukes. That was untrue. The British had NOT learned something. The British government pretended they had learned something about something which didn't exist - or so we are told by people who might or might not be telling the truth. Or maybe the British thought they had learned something. But that's different from actually learning it. Especially if the USA had separately determined that the British had not learned it. It was untrue to say that the British learned something about Saddam seeking noocular weapons materials of mass destruction from the Nigers. The British clearly did NOT learn such a thing and the USA had sent their own guy to check the story out and nobody in the USA who was in the loop seems to have believed it. They thought they could do cute wording and leverage the comments from the British into proving that BigFoot and the Yeti were right there in Baghdad - and Tikrit [don't forget Rumsfeld and co KNEW where the weapons of mass destruction were hiding AND that they were so ready to fire [in 45 minutes] that it was necessary for everyone to run around shouting "Gas Gas Gas", just like in the movies]. BigFoot has obviously hot-footed it into Iran where a huge new oil field has been discovered which, if it falls into the wrong hands, would fund weapons of mass destruction development in Iran and terrorism against the Crusaders. It's obviously time to pre-empt such BigFoot fast breeders and hot foot it over to Iran to deal with the danger and get the oil [for the betterment of mankind]. The UN should NOT be involved as they are a bunch of wusses - the brave USA soldiers want to do it themselves now that they've knocked over Saddam. They are having so much fun in Iraq and have been so welcomed as liberators, with bunches of flowers and offers of marriage from beautiful young Iraqi women that they want to see what it's like in Iran too. Mqurice