At 12:44 AM 7/25/2003 +0000 Robert J. Chassell wrote:
>John, rather admirably, says that the lack of search was because the
>Administration judged it more important in the latter part of April
>and May to protect Iraqis from looters and such than to protect
>Americans in Washington, DC, where he lives, or in Kalamazoo, MI.
>Perhaps John is right, but I find that argument hard to believe.
Alternatively, I also suggest that it is impossible to believe at this
point that an immediate search of those sites by all available men would
have reduced the number of weapons able to be smuggled by the Baathists by
a statisticly significant amount.
We now know that the Coalition was pretty much standed by the rapid
collapse of the formal Iraqi Resisitance. Given that the formal Iraqi
Resistance essentially retreated, after having a year+ to prepare for the
war, it somes impossible to believe that rapid "site inspections" would
have affected the number of smuggled WMD's in any meaningul way.
JDG
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