Give up, Ake, my friend... T is on their payroll and will spin and spi9n and spin until the cows come home... T isn't particularially interested in the truth... MIght of fact, T usually runs from the truth... He just brings up another subject rather that face reality...

He was this way during the mad-dash-to-Iraq by both Blair and his bud, Bush... What he did during those times is exactly what you are dealing with now... He won't allow the bigt picture because the big picture makes his employers look bad so he either just makes stuff up or tries to move the discussion onto a microscope slide of his choice, thereby ignoring the reality of the big picture and then he tries to lure you into an academic squablle over the smallest of details hoping that you will forget the big picture...

This has been and continues to be his only strategy as he goes about defending his heros, Geroge Liar Bush and Tony B. Liar...

All I can say is that the money must be good 'casue no-one would do what T does if the money wasn't good...

Bobert