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**Mitchell Holman[_1_]**

Fred J. McCall wrote in
:

(Eric Chomko) wrote:

:Rand Simberg ) wrote:
:: On 17 Jul 2006 10:49:28 -0700, in a place far, far away, "BC"
:: made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
:: way as to indicate that:
:
::
:: Rand Simberg wrote:
:: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:28:09 GMT, in a place far, far away,
:: "Bernard Spilman" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
:: in such a way as to indicate that:
::
:: Indeed, making stuff up is more the current administration's
:: specialty -- such as WMD
::
:: Which, it now turns out, existed.
::
:: Then where the **** are they? If they are there, then produce
:: them.
::
::
:: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...06/06/30/AR200
:: 6063001528.html
::
:: Those are old, degraded munitions from the Iran-Iraq
:: war.
:
:: They were part of what Saddam was obligated to turn in as fulfillment
:: of the UNSC resolutions. His continuing failure to do so was the
:: primary justification for his removal, per those resolutions.
:
:But they weren't WMD.

They weren't? Did they change the definition?

:: The stuff you keep under your sink is likely more
:: lethal now. Do you really think this motly collection of
:: long lost and misplaced, filled & unfilled leftovers from
:: a messy 20yr-old war are the same "WMD's" that Bush
:: and his people have been warning against since 2002?
:
:: No. I'm simply disputing the continuing lie that there were no WMDs
:: in Iraq.
:
:That wasn't a lie. You're a dupe.

Ok, Eric, where's your threshold for how many have to be found in
order for them to constitute WMD? Or have you just adopted a
definition which says there could NEVER be WMD, no matter what is
found?

"It turns out that we have not found weapons
of mass destruction."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Oct. 4, 2004.