{"id":272,"date":"2004-10-07T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T19:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=272"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:40:05","slug":"isg-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/07\/isg-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ISG Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\">PowerLine<\/a>:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to news reports, the testimony of Charles Duelfer and the thousand-page Iraq Survey Group report released yesterday suggest that Saddam Hussein had no WMD stockpiles and had not built any since 1992, but that he intended to restart the weapons program following the elimination of UN sanctions. (Click <a href=\"http:\/\/news.findlaw.com\/nytimes\/docs\/iraq\/cia93004wmdrpt.html\">here <\/a>for access to the report.)&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My question then is, why didn&#8217;t we wait until the UN sanctions had been removed before we invaded? Then, at least, we would&#8217;ve found the WMD, and we&#8217;d have PROOF of it &#8211; thus avoiding everyone in the world second-guessing our original motives, and probably just avoiding a lot of (political) trouble in the process.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s silly of me to expect our leaders to think logically &#8211; or rationally, it seems. The ability to think logically seems to automatically ban one from serving in a public office. <\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to news reports, the testimony of Charles Duelfer and the thousand-page Iraq Survey Group report released yesterday suggest that Saddam Hussein had no WMD stockpiles and had not built any since 1992, but that he intended to restart the weapons program following the elimination of UN sanctions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-4o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":274,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/07\/hawks-and-the-presidency\/","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":0},"title":"Hawks and the Presidency","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting take on Kerry, and how things would be if he were elected.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":528,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/07\/data-brokers-data-accuracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":1},"title":"Data Brokers != Data Accuracy?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a report on the accuracy of data from data brokers, as well as a report on how easy (or not easy, as the case may be) to fix errors in the data.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":434,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/03\/31\/internet-study-finished-after-7-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":2},"title":"Internet study finished &#8211; after 7 years","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 31, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I find this particularly amusing, given some of the conclusions of the report. One thing noted was that the report suggests that major Internet hubs be operated by volunteers & other non-government agencies - which is in STARK contrast to what the UN is saying these days.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/09\/crs-report-analysis-of-real-id\/","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":3},"title":"CRS Report &#8211; Analysis of REAL ID","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 9, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Y'know, we elect these people to congress, and they make laws like this. 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