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To: epicure who wrote (10403)	5/10/2004 5:05:27 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

In the main, they are, except for these digressions into "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, GOTCHA!" pissing matches that go nowhere and just chew up bandwidth. I look at the small group of principals in that sandbox and wonder when they will realize that they have called each other all the names they can, no one has budged a millimeter and in the end, it means nothing. Then I realize they won't and just skim through the chaff looking for the occasional useful nugget. Kinda rare these days.

To: epicure who wrote (10403)	5/10/2004 7:29:56 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I think you should probably expect better than you are dishing out. In the main people here seem pretty decent. X.. you cited you were "right" about WMDs prior to the war's commencement. Which means that, at the time, you felt you had the proper "FORESIGHT" of knowing what was going to transpire. Now if you had presented some kind of valid rationale, backed by facts and documentation, as to why we wouldn't find any WMD stockpiles, then that would be VALID foresight, not merely a "guess", as you referred to it. The opposite of foresight is hindsight, which is defined as "The ability to understand the nature of an event AFTER it has already occurred". Sure you can make a prediction... As I stated previously on the FADG thread, anyone can flip a coin and take one side of an issue at random without having a valid basis for doing so. Heck, UNMOVIC, with all of its experts on the ground in Iraq, was not even willing to claim that such an assertion as your was "right". It was only speculation, lacking evidence either pro or con. But it was only AFTER we overthrew Saddam and failed to find any WMD stockpiles that your foresight received any validity at all.. That's called hindsight. Hawk