From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 17:08:22 MDT
--- Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> At 07:21 PM 9/11/02 -0600, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >Earlier in this thread, I stated that it was my opinion that Scott
> Ritter was
> >a turncoat who had sold out to the Iraqis ...
> >I now have proof. ...
> >Ritter currently in Bagdad claiming to all and sundry that he and
> >the US knows that Iraq has no WMD, but it has been documented that
> he has
> >received $400,000 from a Detroit based Islamic anti-American group
>
> Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Ritter (who was and is there,
> and
> in a primo position to know the facts, unlike Mike or me) is correct?
> Suppose Iraq actually *does* have bugger-all WMD, and bugger-all
> facilities
> for making any. (Even though this was not always the case, and they
> are the
> spawn of Stan, sorry, Satan, and so on.) Would you expect a man of
> conscience to shut up about this uncomfortable fact?
The problem is that even he admits that he doesn't in fact know the
facts, that he didn't know the facts in 1998, but paradoxically claims
that because we don't know (because the inspectors were kicked out)
whether Saddam has WMD via eyewitness inspector evidence, that we
shouldn't smack him down for refusing to let said inspectors back in.
He ludicrously claims that, somehow, the fact that he won't let
inspectors back in is somehow 'proof' that he doesn't have WMD....
> If he uses the
> (perhaps tainted) dough to make a documentary about the truth as he
> believes it to be, rather than by pocketing his traitor's gold
> (traitor?
> there's no declared enemy in the story so far, I think) and living
> the wild
> life in the Bahamas, isn't the balance of probabilities in his favor
> rather than against it?
For $400,000, I will produce a movie that claims to 'prove' that Saddam
has no WMD. My actual costs of production will be somewhat less than
$5k. Does this make me a saint in the service of humanity, or in any
way right?
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