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To: Neocon who wrote (117412)	10/22/2003 7:49:35 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Neocon; Re household weapons in Iraq. Here's what you've admitted: Neocon, October 22, 2003 I do not know the pattern of gun ownership before the war. #reply-19425103 These are truthful words. In fact, you still won't admit that the Iraqis were heavily armed before the war, despite all logical evidence to the contrary. And it's not as if you're uninterested in the personal ownership of guns. For example, you extensively bolded this article on the subject of differences between the personal ownership of guns in various countries: Neocon, April 2, 2001 This is also interesting: ... Symposium: Guns at Home, Guns on the Street: An International Perspective* ...* #reply-15601112 My point is that you argued heartily for an invasion of Iraq for the past year while remaining profoundly ignorant of the country. And at the same time as you now admit your ignorance, you made posts about WMDs that now appear foolish in retrospect such as these: Neocon, April 28, 2003 Almost all Iraqi scientists now talking to us agree that they lied their heads off, and that the programs we feared did exist, and that they were getting forewarning before inspections to move weapons caches or get rid of lab materials. #reply-18890428 Neocon, March 12, 2003 Saddam Hussein knows, of course, that he has neither the manpower nor the weaponry to challenge the United States and NATO, which is why it is imperative to develop weapons of mass destruction to alter the balance. #reply-18690999 In other words, not only were you profoundly ignorant of the state of Iraq's household ownership of weapons (an ignorance that could have been trivially alleviated by simply reading any reasonably complete newspaper), but you were at the same time very sure of weapons that did not, in fact, exist. This is, in a nutshell, the problem with the Administration's invasion of Iraq. Blissful ignorance and false certainty, where there should have been wary knowledge and righteous understanding. -- Carl P.S. Ignorance is no excuse.