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A more youthful, less geeky one? Yeah, I could see that. Interestingly enough, after being a U.S. Marine and a UN weapons inspector, he's now living in Albany, NY working for the fire department.

OK, so I saw Scott Ritter speak today. Great stuff. As a lot of things at the Commonwealth Club, his speech will likely be aired on NPR within a few days. The (not so quick) story... He didn't fault so much Republicans or Democrats -- or "intelligence failures" -- for the whole WMD bust in...

Be careful, Andy -- I think Rainforest Liu is rubbing off on you. ;)

The atomic bomb was really just the "Shock and Awe" campaign of its day. The US did far, far worse damage, death, and destruction with their firebombing campaigns of all major Japanese cities leading up to the drop of the atomic bomb. On one night in March 1945 alone, US firebombs leveled...

My point exactly.

The key is having the judgement to know when your informant is a crack head or not... Or, as others might put it, for some people the key is finding just the right crack head informants to say the exact crazy #^%@ you selectively wanted to hear to justify your break-in.

They stay crunchy in milk, though... Actually, if you think the amount of missing Plutonium from Los Alamos is bad, try the former USSR, where they use the stuff for toothpaste. Hopefully, the half-life will be in our favor if we can wait it out long enough. :scared:

:cool: Choice.

I just wish the system had more accountability... more than just votes in elections. If I f*# up and make a bad decision on my job, I get reprimanded. If my bad decision costs the company several thousand dollars, it could be much worse. I could, and should, be fired. Then you take someone...

You cannot deny that he was right, whether or not you are suspicious of his ties or motives. Seeing his reports as late as 2001 of how he was muscled around by Saddam's henchmen, and subjected to shell games of delays and blockades by the Iraqi officials, I thought he would be the first person...

Speaking of WMDs, the ever-controversial Scott Ritter -- the UN Weapons Inspector who was relieved before the most recent invasion of Iraq -- is coming to the Commonwealth Club (where I've been taking my Italian lessons this year as a member) to do a talk on the subject this Friday. I just...

I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass on this one. War has far too many horrors to really subject yourself to seeing them all. :sick:

Rami, this is where you're supposed to say: "...but first I have to blow something up." :D j/k

I think it's a good movie, but I've seen better of his. Agreed that I think he cuts down his own credibility. He really should try to stick more with keeping himself out of his own pictures. And definitely the most poignant part was when he pushed the issue of all these senators sending their...

I've got this image of George Senior, smacking George Jr. upside the head saying, "Who's laughing now about my not making a run all the way to Bagdad, huh, punk?"

Interesting to hear. I can only imagine what these guys (and women) must be going through to have to be on alert for every man, woman, and child that approaches them, at any time of day. Nervewracking. Encouraging to hear those words about appreciation. As for the percentage of insurgents being...

Actually, I think you're close. I think he was born in Beruit or something. Beruit, Saskatchewan in fact. :P

It's about time they made Keanu Reeves Prime Minister.

Payback is sweet. :D

If Bush were smart, he'd learn a little something from Saddam: have an army of decoy Bushes fly around in decoy Air Force Ones at any given time.