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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (6177)	12/8/2003 8:50:02 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 15991

crowd has is absence of evidence, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. That is not how societies work. That is not the law of any civilized society. Hence we do not prosecute someone if there is absence of evidence. So even with a good play of words (reminds me of Jesse Jackson and Al Shapton and their play of words), the fact remains that we cannot believe the President until we find WMDs. If WMDs could be destroyed that quickly without any trace of destruction, American science and American intelligence would have known that. And if Bush was really serious about the "imminent threat" his military would have planned such so as to capture some of that evidence. Instead the US military was making all the preparation for a WMD attack during its march towards Baghdad