Tom you have to be exhausted from all your stretching? When you say <"WMD programs, too, including their dismantling and concealment."> and asking us to accept the premise WMDs were dismantled and/or concealed is without any foundation.

I find it amazing you find a peripheral Russian involvement surprising in this area. In fact, I don't believe you actually do and are using it to make a point where you have no position. You are doing the old "float like a butterfly" routine again. Or, perhaps you have forgotten the grief we caused the Russians in Afghanistan by supply and equippege of the Taliban? Of course you haven't.

Now, after all your stretching it is time to start the resistence training. Pick up something solid and move it several time.

Publius