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Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Thin End of the Wedge
As has been reported by the NYT-- but not in screaming 24 point bold caps -- Donald Rumsfeld now "Echoes Notion That Iraq Destroyed Arms." Gotta love the faintness of "echo" being reinforced by the washiness of "notion". While not ruling out the possibility of caches of incriminating materials being discovered any day now:
"It is also possible that they would destroy them just before the conflict."Compliance with UN resolutions just before an ultimatum is now therefore equivalent to non-compliance -- just as the allegations of Saddam's sponsorship of Al Qaeda turned out to hinge on a tiny enclave on the Iranian border. But Mr Rumsfeld still holds out hope of vindication:
"There's going to be skepticism until people find out there was, actually, a WMD program.""Program" means "If we can't find large stockpiles of shells, we'll come up with a few foldersful of documents". And doesn't that "until" and its sly companion "actually" echo the notion of fully open-minded scientific inquiry? No, it sounds like the sort of thing a Kremlin official of the 1950s would say before a show trial.