On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:47:44 GMT, Vince Brannigan
wrote:

Fred J. McCall wrote:

Especially since Vince's delusions seem to be rewriting history. I'm
not sure just how he thinks "el Busho" managed to make the
intelligence services of the UK, France, Germany, Russia, and the US
all believe that Iraq had chemical weapons ready to deploy

nonsense From 29 jan

Russia's UN ambassador said that any fresh US evidence against Iraq will
have to contain "undeniable proof" that Baghdad has retained banned
nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

[snip]

What Mr. McCall has written is not nonsense; the passage Prof.
Brannigan has provided does not refute the claim that the intelligence
services of France, Germany, and Russia more or less agreed with the
US and UK that Saddam had biological and chemical weapons but
disagreed on what actions to take as a result. The key phrase is
"undeniable proof;" intelligence never provides undeniable proof. For
example, I could show Vince aerial photographs of the stockpiles of
chemical weapons that the US and Russia have declared to OPCW and are
in the process of destroying, and I could argue convincingly that the
images do not provide undeniable proof that those weapons exist; one
must trust that the OPCW inspectorate has done its job. The Russian
ambassador was engaged in raising the bar, which not coincidentally
furthered Russia's declared policy of resisting war.

Regards,

George
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