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As far as the WMD issue is concerned, I think I've said just about all I have to say. It took me three days to write that last post, and frankly, I'm tired of trying to identify all the different fallacies employed in the "debate" and so I intend to deploy a new tactic. The next time I hear someone whinge that "we were promised tens of thousands of litres of VX" or whatever, I'll just respond, "Well, I was promised that Iraq would become Vietnam. But there's no Mekong or Red River Delta, there's no Annamese Cordillera, there's certainly no rain forest! The population of Iraq still consists overwhelmingly of Arabs, Kurds, Turcomans, Assyrians and 'other' instead of Vietnamese, Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Thai, Cham and Montagnards! It's been three months and there's not a bowl of pho bo or a bottle of nuoc mam to be had in the country!" |
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