To: epicure who wrote (236087 ) 7/13/2007 12:51:02 AM From: Constant Reader Read Replies (2) | Respond to Everyone knows that the only one who make a mistake on SI is you. The rest of us are preternaturally disposed to always be correct (and unfailingly polite as well). In a way, you can take pride in being without doubt the most widely (and independently) documented poster in SI history. The voluminous files probably fill more than one small room in a few different states. was reported by Michael Yon (I don't feel like wading through the crap to find out), it has an extraordinarily high likelihood of being true. Yon has a proven track record of some years standing, and doesn't pull punches in his reporting in the field or in the staff rooms. While it may be true that AQ are rational actors most of the time, it is not true that everyone claiming to be AQ in Iraq is in fact AQ and more than a few AQ members have proven to be quite irrational. Remember, this is a group that ordered produce sellers to separate their fruits and vegetables by sex under pain of death for failing to do so. While the sex of some may seem obvious, I imagine that more than one produce seller was flummoxed at how to go about determining the sex of others.)
