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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (123783)	1/27/2004 2:04:29 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<He made enemies and that effectively made him unemployable.. So he went to work for himself, and the other side.> Hawk, he now has excellent cover! Nobody would believe now that he's still in the employ of the Office of Disinformation. Deception is the key to success when fooling the bad guys is the aim. Now he can hook up with the PLA, AlQ and others. Whatever the reality of whose side he's on, he was a bona fide UN inspector dude. Given that sort of person being given a free pass anywhere in one's sovereignty, it's not surprising that Saddam gave all opposition he could to UNSCOMies. How would you feel about somebody like Scott Ritter ratting around in the deepest secrets of the USA and reporting back to UNSCOM? I think you'd want to refuse him and his mates entry and give them every difficulty possible. What did people really think Saddam would do, knowing that the USA and mates were out to get him, no matter what he did? I'm keeping an eye out for any genuinely good guys in the whole drama. Colin Powell seems a good bloke, despite waving vials of Earth Killer around to demonstrate the power of WMDs. I thought Gorby was a dinkum dude too, though he's been sidelined for a decade. Maggie Thatcher was an honorary good bloke, but she's faded. Helen Clark means well and does well in some respects, but has faulty philosophical foundations in respect of the state versus the individual not to mention the mechanism for wealth creation and the ethics of private property. Kofi Annan hasn't upset me so far. Dr Irwin Jacobs of QUALCOMM fame seems to me to be a genuinely good guy. He'd head the list of that bunch in my book. Mqurice