In article , Leslie Swartz
wrote:

Excellent.

So now you are ready to agree that the mountains of evidence we have
accumulated to demonstrate that Iraq had WMD programs, and WMDs themselves,
overwhelms the absence fo evidence that he destroyed them?

That is what you are saying, right?

WTF?

I was harmlessly attacking the foolish concept that "absence of
evidence does not equal evidence of absence", and pointing out that
absence of evidence is indeed evidence (although assuredly not proof)
of absence.

Iraq, or any other country with a name beginning somewhere between A
and Z, had nothing to do with it.

Go, and grind your axe in peace.

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