The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74339   Message #1296248
Posted By: Bill D
13-Oct-04 - 12:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush is an arrogant asshole.
Subject: RE: BS: Bush is an arrogant asshole.
these articles have to be read with a grain of salt:

"Satellite imagery shows that entire buildings in Iraq have been dismantled. They once housed high-precision equipment that could help (italics mine) a government or terror group make nuclear bombs"

if 'something' is gone, that does NOT prove exactly what WAS there, nor does it explain who removed it, or for what purpose, or that it was inherently dangerous when it WAS there. "high-precision equipment" could be lathes and microscopes...

similarly, not finding WMDs does not prove they were "just well hidden", etc.....it is easy to construct sentences and claims that, while technically true, explain almost nothing.

"if a small boy has a hammer, almost everything he sees looks like a nail"