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Thread #52072   Message #810249
Posted By: NicoleC
24-Oct-02 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
Subject: RE: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
Teribus,

Thanks for the input. Numerous news outlets are reporting the 60 day limit to inspections, and it just doesn't make sense. So I'm glad to hear it may be erroneous information.

Doug, I thought about that angle. But if our government KNEW where the weapons were, we'd take a few sat photos, and case closed -- hasn't happened. Or, in the case of a small bio factory or something that won't show up on a photo very well, wouldn't that evidence be part of the evidence presented to the other members of the Security Council -- the evidence they say isn't enough? We'd have to know for sure to be so cocky about 60 days being enough, and we obviously don't.

So either way, it doesn't make sense to limit the inspection time table. Even if we think we know where stuff is, we'd still want to leave ourselves more opportunity, not less.

But it looks like the 60 day thing is a product of the US media's imagination, and not the administration or the UN.