Walter Hinteler wrote: Iraq Survey Report Concludes NO WMD IN IRAQ
Ok! Let us go with the ever growing (like a spreading virus) popular logic of reverse inductive reasoning.
Theorem to be proved: There never were any WMD in Iraq.
There are no WMD in Iraq today.
There were no WMD in Iraq yesterday.
There were no WMD in Iraq an unknown number of days ago.
Therefore, by reverse induction, there were no WMD in Iraq in March 2003.
Since there were no WMD in Iraq in March 2003, there were no WMD in Iraq
prior to March 2003.
Since there were no WMD in Iraq
prior to March 2003, there were no WMD in Iraq
at the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
Since there were no WMD in Iraq
at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, there were no WMD in Iraq
prior to the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
Since there were no WMD in Iraq
prior to the end of the Gulf War in 1991, there
never were any WMD in Iraq.
MUTARTSNOMED TARE OUQ (OR REVERSE QUO ERAT DEMONSTRATUM)
Similarly, given that Saddam Hussein is in jail now, it follows that
there is zero connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden now, therefore there never was any relationship between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Similarly, given that Saddam Hussein is in jail now, it follows that
Saddam Hussein is not murdering his people now, therefore Saddam Hussein never murdered his people.
Walter Hinteler wrote: Tony Blair will be confronted with a fresh challenge over Iraq within the next two weeks when the long-awaited final report of the Iraq Survey Group concludes there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country at the time of the US-UK invasion.
Poor Tony, so terribly handicapped. Had he only a modicum of vision in March 2003 to know there would be no WMD in Iraq now, he could have easily reverse induced there were no WMD in Iraq in March 2003 at the time of the US-UK invasion.
Even if disassembled WMD were to be subsequently found stored in Syria, that would simply mean there always were disassembled WMD, that were no immediate threat, stacked in Syria. ....... Right?