With the Gulf War (Raytheon Presents: The Gulf War II Brought To You By Lockheed-Martin (c)) sequel overshadowed by Columbia breaking up on re-entry, the American Administration has bought some time to come up with the goods. By the goods, I mean the convincing evidence that Iraq is hiding their candy.
As most have seen, the backing for the war is not 100%: There are people who think its not a done deal, as is their right in a democracy. They want to see the goods.
They want to see Colin Powell or Gen. Tommy Franks up on the stage with Ari (Mister Friendly) Fleischer with some pictures of Saddam Hussein standing next to a Scud missile, personally loading it up with nerve gas and radioactive waste, to fire off at Israel, Kuwait and France. I suspect that even if such a picture existed, such level of evidence would still not convince a small percentage. I can live with that percentage.
Even in such a screwed up time as the Bay of Pigs CIA invasion of Cuba and the whole Cuban Missal Crisis (circa 1961-1962) the Administration put up the pictures from U-2 flights showing the launchers and missiles being loaded into Cuba. “Here’s the Goods. See this? Bad Thing.” The polloi bought in. Castro Bad. Missiles Bad. Kick Their Ass.
The same should hold true for Raytheon Presents: The Gulf War II Brought To You By Lockheed-Martin (c). Show us the goods. Tell us what the hell we’re looking at and we’ll go along in all likelihood. It is patently obvious to anyone with even minimum mental skills (Congress, Parliament) that Saddam Hussein is a bad guy. But being a Bad Guy is not quite enough to get your ass kicked.
If the US has information that puts the lock on it, show it. It doesn’t even have to hold up to Lance Ito-Johnny Cochrane kind of rules of evidence (Yak think? Sure..it’s in, babe) but just has to be obvious enough that the average person can say ‘Uh-Huh.”
Then we can Let Slip The Dogs Of War with all that entails.
RoadDave 