Reply #77: I'm with ya, Bragi

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but I'm almost certain there will NOT be a 'slam dunk' (credible evidence of WMDs)
or we would have seen it already.

This administration was so desparate they called the 2 trailers WMDs (Bush in a European
speech) even after experts said they were prob. for the production of hydrogen, and then
they grab reporters in Iraq to make them look at a few items buried beneath a rose bush.
Given this level of desperation, can you imagine them finding a real smoking gun (credible
evidence) and simply sitting on it? Boy, I can't.

And I don't believe they will find anything either, for this reason: if there were WMDs, some
Iraqis would already have pointed them out. Hell, the captives are turning on Ba'ath party
members &c. Why would they keep quiet when offered incentives like $ and promise not
to prosecute. (We are so desparate, that I know we've made such offers--prob. save haven
for them and family &c.)

So . . . I don't think we'll even have to worry about the worst case that you put forward. But, like
you say, even then there will only short term harm to Dems while the evidence is weighted in
the public mind.

Good post. Bragi, and welcome to DU :toast: