On Thu, April 13, 2006 0:00, HP3000-L automatic digest system said:
On   Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:00:03 -0500, Denys Beauchemin
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> When next you speak with Herr Baier, can you ask him a simple question,
> to wit:  "Do you ever get tired of being wrong?"
>
> http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraqi_mobile_plants/paper_w.pdf
>
> The report Herr Baier mentioned is wrong.  The trailers were indeed
> biological weapons laboratories.

The persistent distaste that you exhibit towards any who confront your own
want of skepticism with respect to anything that originates from number
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is no substitute for material evidence.  The
paper that you cite was written barely two months after the U.S. invasion
of Iraq in 2003 and has been subsequently overturned by further
investigation. See:

"Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD", 30
September 2004 at http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/.

Your emotional and frequently baseless refutations of disagreeable
evidence discredits you and your beliefs.  The central issue is quite
clear, a great number of people, numbering in the tens if not hundreds of
thousands, are dead today because of fears harboured by an influential
group of people resident in the United States and propagated to a vastly
under-informed populace.  If these deaths indeed resulted because those
fears were well grounded in fact and NO ALTERNATIVE action other than war
would suffice to resolve them, then and only then can those deaths be
justified.

The available evidence to date is that those fears were NOT well grounded
nor were alternative, possibly more effectual, responses seriously
considered. The evident result is that rather than resolve a problem the
pre-emptory violence of the United States with respect to Iraq has instead
precipitated both a human and an international security disaster on a vast
scale.

Beyond this, the desire to justify the unjustifiable is evidently leading
the leaders of your adopted country to break the very laws that they were
sworn to uphold, Individuals facing the consequences of their own
misguided judgements are replacing the sober consideration of centuries
laid out in constitutional law with their own momentary and self-serving
passions.  It is here that the greatest danger lies and it is the wilful
blindness of its citizens to this discreditable if not actually felonious
conduct that poses the more pressing danger to the republic.

This leads inevitably to consideration of why then this tragedy was
permitted to unfold before the eyes and at the hands of a people who pride
themselves upon their high degree of civil tolerance and fair dealings
with others.  Persistent denial of contradictory evidence on the basis of
ideological beliefs is not, in my opinion, a reasonable or fruitful way to
deal with such difficulties. Nor does this type of behaviour bode well for
emplacing structures to prevent or at least mitigate the public hysteria
that led these crimes to be committed in the first instance.  Failure to
address these issues forthrightly will result in similar future tragedies,
with perhaps even more dire results.

This is not a liberal/conservative divide, it is essentially a matter of
life or death.


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