inspection programs have found SOME weapons programs.

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Tom Brosz — 11/21/2002 5:21:25 PM (archived)

There is absolutely no way to prove an inspection program has found ALL the weapons, despite what appears to be cooperation.

Imagine a serial killer living in a house with a known record of taking rifle shots at neighbors. The killer has lived in this house unmolested for several years without being observed.

Now imagine we decide the best way to deal with him is to simply confine him in his big old house and search the house for weapons so he can't snipe out the windows any more. Does this make sense?

How do you know he didn't hide one you didn't find, short of dismantling the house down to the nails? Now imagine the house is the size of Versailles. Now what? Leave him be, and let him shoot someone else? Then what? Search the house again?

Isn't it much more sensible to haul him out of the house permanently? Then who cares how many guns are still hidden there?

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US seen as sabotaging inspections in Iraq. - Bowser - 11/20/2002 5:50:11 PM
- Re: Good piece . . . - D. Spires - 11/20/2002 6:38:57 PM
- Are you betting that Sadam got rid of his WMD Program? - Scott - 11/20/2002 6:13:53 PM
  - The point of the inspections is to find them. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 11/20/2002 7:39:36 PM
    - The whole thing is a charade. - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2002 8:07:08 PM
      - I believe you are mistaken. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 11/20/2002 11:50:10 AM
        
        Why? (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2002 3:00:28 PM
        
        Because historically, inspection programs have found weapons programs. Why not? n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 11/21/2002 4:24:58 PM
        
        inspection programs have found SOME weapons programs. - Tom Brosz - 11/21/2002 5:21:25 PM
        
        I love analogies - alcaray - 11/21/2002 7:46:18 PM
        
        Re: Not a single debt to society was ever paid by the Hussein regime . . . (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 11/21/2002 8:02:49 PM
        
        The "authorities" "put him on parole", when he surrendered. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 11/21/2002 8:37:43 PM
        
        Re: He remains, to this day, a criminal at large . . . (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 11/22/2002 3:21:40 PM
        
        Re: Not so mach a charade as it is posturing . . . - D. Spires - 11/20/2002 1:32:19 PM
      - Exactly - Scott - 11/20/2002 9:00:03 AM
  - Heh, heh, heh. - Bowser - 11/20/2002 6:56:57 PM
    - The effective demonstration of the empty mind at work. - ebnelson - 11/20/2002 8:36:21 PM
    - Re: So, you say they're wrong about OBL being dead . . . ? (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 11/20/2002 7:22:20 PM
    - Interesting... - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2002 7:12:37 PM
      - Now, Tom - - - - Bowser - 11/20/2002 2:48:15 PM
        
        Re: Just as every convicted fellon has a right to bear arms . . . - D. Spires - 11/21/2002 1:45:43 PM
        
        You realize Saddam is in Iraq right? You're not one of the 87%-ers... I hope? - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/20/2002 5:45:01 PM
    - Re: Conspiracy Theories - 101 . . . (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 11/20/2002 7:02:25 PM
    - IMS2BU N/T (n/t) - Scott - 11/20/2002 9:00:55 AM
- Time Will Tell on Iraqi Inspections, Rumsfeld Says . . . - D. Spires - 11/20/2002 9:23:16 AM

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