Comments on Another Rovian Conspiracy: The New York Times' November Suprise

you are a fucking moron.Thanks for keeping the deb...

2006-11-05T09:31:24.920-06:00

you are a fucking moron.

Thanks for keeping the debate civil. I know that when it's difficult to reply with facts, slander has to suffice. And cursing doesn't exactly elevate your intelligence in the minds of your readers.

you are a fucking moron.

2006-11-04T09:06:43.270-06:00

you are a fucking moron.

Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraq...

2006-11-03T22:18:34.376-06:00

Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990’s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.

So, experts in the 90s and in 2002 say that Hussein's scientists could make a nuke within a year.

If you have the capacity to have a nuke within a year in 1990, you have the capacity to have a nuke within a year in 2002 (since you have the same knowledge).

But, you'll retort, Saddam was being held in check by the sanctions and the inspections.

That is a naive statement on two counts:
1 - Saddam had plenty of dough rolling in from the French and Kofi's boys to fund whatever he wanted and the inspections were a farce (which was one of the reasons why everyone thought Saddam had WMDs - because he was trying to stifle inspectors around the clock.
2 - the sanctions and the inspections regimes (along with the US-enforced no-fly zones) would not be maintained indefinitely. The French, the Leftists in the US, and the world community at large was starting to waiver on whether the sanctions were not causing more harm than good...

But, hey... at least we know Saddam won't have a nuke now. No thanks to you.

No, the Times did not just publish a story about I...

2006-11-03T10:15:21.683-06:00

No, the Times did not just publish a story about Iraq having a nuclear weapons program, at least in this decade. Or the decade before that. Those documents were from the period before Gulf War 1, which we won. And which ended the possibility of Saddam acquiring the imaginary WMD.