From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 19:10:25 MDT
I haven't yet seen a challenge to Ritter's comment
that Iraq didn't have the technologies in house to
make the weapons. Even if plants were missed in the
search, the information needed to be bought from
outside countries which can be easily traced, and in
fact Israel has had massive vested interest in
dilligent monitoring of the influx of weapons
technologies. If Israel had found evidence, it would
surely have saturated the news by now in the Bush
administration's call for war.
So, as I see, unless there was a challenge to the
notion that they can't make these weapons on their own
that I missed and that is valid (feel free to include
links, I'd like to see more intelligent discussion on
this than the mainstream media has allowed), I see
three choices.
1: A major power (namely European) is working in
cahoots with Iraq and has filtered in info undetected
[I find this unlikely, but maybe others don't].
2: Ritter is a blatant liar [possibly, although I
wish his opponents would do a better job of
discrediting him, instead of attacking his personage
instead then].
3: Ritter is telling the truth.
--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> b) How much access do you think Saddam gave to
> Ritter to explore
> anyplace he wanted to in Iraq to 'prove' that Saddam
> has no WMD? Did
> Ritter get carte blanche to inspect every closet and
> hovel in the
> country? Did Ritter the civilian have any sort of
> useful intelligence
> upon which to make such decisions if he did in fact
> have such access?
> Without such intelligence and access, it is
> factually impossible for
> Ritter to 'prove' that Saddam has no WMD, and
> therefore any movie he
> produces is nothing but lies and propaganda, in the
> pay of an enemy of
> the US who has sent teams to assassinate a US
> president, to sow
> confusion, uncertainty and doubt in the US and the
> world.
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