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Old July 31st 03, 01:33 AM
Rand Simberg
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Default On the importance of mandate

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:40:34 GMT, in a place far, far away, LooseChanj
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

On or about Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:57:09 GMT, Brian Thorn made the sensational claim that:
Once Saddam is confirmed dead and the Iraqis believe it, people will
come out of the woodwork to tell us where the WMD is buried. The man
terrorised his people for decades, and they're not going to believe
he's truly gone until they see his rotting carcass on TV.


The same way they saw him walking amongst them in the streets?


No, in a different way. Now that Qusay and Uday are dead (there's
some kind of pig latin joke in those names, somewhere), people are
starting to believe that we're serious, and not going away. Up until
then, they still had to make a bet as to whether or not they'd survive
ratting him out.

At some point (we may not be quite there yet, but I suspect we're
close) there will be a tipping point at which people will feel safe to
come forward. Certainly once Saddam's gone, they'll be much more
comfortable to do so, not only telling us where the WMDs are buried,
but where his remaining supporters are as well.

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