Well here's really neat nugget from the original story it seems Pentagon officals were not happy about the news of the WoMD shell being found, was released, because it was Classified. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM? What other evidence of WoMD's is there that is not being released because it is classified? after all there is rampid conspiracy talk going on amoungst some sectors of this debate worldwide, Lordy they even got films about this or that conspiracy
. But there couldn't possibly be a conspiracy to keep what has been found secret, only a conspiracy about what has not been found.
I want some honest thinking going on here. As T.L. has pointed out on many occasions the UN and nearly every gov't in the world agreed Iraq had WoMD's up to right before the U.S.A. attacked. What the UN and the others didn't know was how much, They thought they had an Idea but not an exact figure a rough guess. Let's call that guess "X" The U.S. goes in and finds .2X right off the bat, that leaves .8X still out there. Over the next year they find another .5X. That still leaves .3X out there still unfound and potentially could be used to kill. What seems more reasonable that the U.S. would keep the total classifed, and denies the enemy the information of how much has been found, a very vital piece of Intel, and help keep the troops that are in harms way a little safer. or release every teany tiny bit of info on WoMD's so the rest of the world can "Feel" better about what is being done, while alerting the enemy about what has been found and giving an enemy that's back is against the wall a heads up. An enemy that has clearly shown by it's current and past actions to have little reguard for Human life. Anybody ever heard of the
USE IT OR LOSE IT philosophy?
You people can make the call, but just chew on it:
One hand not wanting Intel to get out to save lives or what ever reason that rattles arround in the heads of spooks(American slang for the intel community). On the other hand letting Intel out to make people "Feel" better but giving the enemy the heads up, on vital intel.
[ 05-18-2004, 08:04 PM: Message edited by: John D Harris ]