Subject: Planting evidence wasn't so easy

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxx>]

Oh, I predict they'll "find" hard evidence of wmds. It's just that it
takes time to assemble a large cache of these weapons. Sort of like
the auto worker who managed to smuggle an entire Chevrolet out of the
assembly plant piece by piece.

Mike

At 11:14 AM -0400 5/15/03, marxism-digest wrote:
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 07:35:41 -0700
> From: "Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Planting evidence wasn't so easy
>
> I wrote some time ago I thought that the US would have a hard time planting
> chemical or biological (or nuclear, for that matter) weapons in Iraq that
> would
> be convincing. Yet further evidence of that prediction today, in a Reuters
> story:
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has changed its tune on
> Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the reason it went to war there. Instead
> of
> looking for vast stocks of banned materials, it is now pinning its hopes on
> finding
> documentary evidence.
>
> Full:
> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-iraq-usa-weapons.html?ex=1053930535&ei=1&en=17ee6e779c2ebf4f
>
> Planting documents - now that's something they can (and will) do rather
> easily. And, as an abundance of evidence tells us, something that won't get
> much scrutiny from the "liberal" press (on the latter point, be SURE to see
> the latest Tom Tomorrow cartoon):
> http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14977

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