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To: GST who wrote (113021)	8/27/2003 7:09:44 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sounds like the Jedi Meter Maid trick: "This isn't the car you're looking for. There are plenty of quarters in that meter. My pockets are empty. Therefore, all the quarters that were in this pocket are now in the meter. If the quarters weren't in the meter, they'd be in this pocket. That's where I keep them. I don't have any unpaid parking tickets. I can move along now." "That is right, the UN inspectors disarmed Iraq." (in response to:) >>They did such an outstanding job disarming Iraq that they couldn't account for it, instead leaving such documentation up to the Iraqis to produce a woefully inadequate report. Is that how it works? Paperwork moving too fast? Apparently, a "truly outstanding job of disarming Iraq" means that if the Iraqis produce 12,000 pages of inadequate documentation that doesn't even aussage the hapless Blixster's doubts, then the UN did a truly outstanding of disarming Iraq, because Iraq told the UN they did.

To: GST who wrote (113021)	8/27/2003 3:06:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Documentation by Iraq left a lot to be desired, and the job of the inspectors was never easy to be sure -- but we have them to thank for the fact that Iraq no longer had WMD in 2003. I see. And the Coalition forces sitting on Iraq's borders had nothing to do with the fact that inspectors were even allowed back into Iraq after an absence of four years? Then they were told a pack of obvious lies - so obvious that even the UN couldn't describe them as adequate - but what the hey, your faith in the UN seems unbounded. Personally, I find the debka reports that the WMDs were trucked into Syria in January 2003 a whole lot more credible.