[Davros]

I object ......

Not to the insightful and thought provoking post [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] of Lifetime, but to the concept that you are stranded if you remain in Australia [img]smile.gif[/img] . Sure we got Little Johnny and Simple Simon and Fat Kim, but at least they are "mostly harmless". Besides - where else in the world do you get to see regular doses of Australian Rules Football [img]smile.gif[/img] .

On a more serious note - I also wonder if it is just not one huge rolling ball, and no-one really knows where it is going to stop.

Given articles I have read recently that are sourced one from Richard Butler and another from some CIA guy, the world credibility of the US on their intelligence on the WOMD issue is taking a battering. Tales of selective analysis, making the facts fit the case that Uncle George wanted to make, using unsubstantiated claims by disgruntled exiles / refugees as certain proofs. It's a pity that the paper never selected that article by Dicky B as one of the news items to stick on their website - I would have loved to provide a link for others to hear what he had to say.

The big questions that I have at the moment are what did we really know of Iraq's capabilities - how much evidence was verified - was the intelligence selectively doctored - why (by all appearances) were these claims of WOMD, these absolute certainties so very wrong?

Yes - I know I will get responses saying that the hunt is still on, that the doomsayers are talking crap and that GW and his administration are saints, who am I to be futher developing such spurious claims by even daring to give them the time of day.

At the end of the day, while some people will ardently leap to the administrations defence, they will truly know as little of the actual goings on as does my good self (which is of course blot, zip, now't, in fact - bugger all). Despite any debate that we could choose to wage - the truth is held by a few people in a tiny club with elite membership. We can only hope that the truth will come out one day - meanwhile I will go find a grassy knoll and practise my marksmanship - hold on - better make that my golf swing - that is a sport that I have the right equipment for [img]smile.gif[/img] .